"SafeLink is a Government supported program"
For many years having a phone in your home is standard, if not nessearry. Would you be able to live without a phone?
This prompted the FCC to create the LifeLine Program more then twenty years ago. If you have ever applied for any kind of assistants (TANAF/SSI/etc..) you may have heard of the program. The version for Land-lines may have a variety of names (depending on where you live) but now there is one for cell phone service.
You only get about 68 minutes each month, which isn't much. You get the phone free, but I am unsure if you have to give the phone back when you stop using the service. From what I read on their website, soon people on the program will be able to buy air-time cards at many nation wide retail chains so they can use the phone for more then just an hour a month.
However, for some people that may be enough. I think I read that any unused mintues will rollover. It is worth looking into!
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/lllu.html
