Lifeline-Linkup Telephone Service Assistance Programs
Lifeline service discounts are available to qualified customers. FCC Lifeline credit is $10.00 per month and the Wyoming Telephone Assistance is $3.50 per month. Qualification forms can be picked up at the DTE business office during normal working hours.
Wyoming Telephone Assistance Program
The FCC Lifeline discount of $10.00 and the Wyoming Telephone Assistance Program discount of $3.50 provide reduced phone bills for customers who are receiving benefits from one or more of the following programs: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Child Care, POWER (Personal Opportunities with Employment Responsibilities), LIEAP (Low Income Energy Assistance Program), and minimum medical.
If you are participating in any of the programs listed, you are eligible for monthly telephone assistance of $13.50. DTE simply needs a copy of proof of the program from which you are receiving benefits. You can print out a copy of the application form here.
For more information regarding these programs, contact DTE.
For Baggs-Dixon-Savery, call 383-2150. For Dubois-Crowheart, call 455-2341.
If you are calling from out of area, call 1-800-877-7699.
Colorado Telephone Assistance Program
The FCC Lifeline discount of $10.00 and the Wyoming Telephone Assistance Program discount of $2.75 provide reduced phone bills for customers who are receiving benefits from one or more of the following programs: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Child Care, POWER (Personal Opportunities with Employment Responsibilities), LIEAP (Low Income Energy Assistance Program), and minimum medical.
If you are participating in any of the programs listed, you are eligible for monthly telephone assistance of $12.75. DTE simply needs a copy of proof of the program from which you are receiving benefits. You can print out a copy of the application form here.
For more information regarding these programs, contact DTE.
For Slater, Colorado, call 383-2150.
If you are calling from out of area, call 1-800-877-7699.
Wind River Indian Reservation Customers
Individuals who live on a federally recognized reservation or Alaskan Native lands may be eligible for a program that provides local telephone service for as low as $1.00 a month. The enhanced tribal Lifeline program was implemented by the Federal Communications Commission and is available through local telephone companies. In addition to the lower monthly telephone service charges available through the Lifeline program, eligible individuals can also save up to $100 on the cost of getting new phone service installed through the Link Up program.
In order to qualify for tribal Lifeline benefits an individual must:
be a resident of a federally recognized reservation or Alaskan Native lands and
receive assistance from one of the following programs:
Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance
Tribally Administered Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Head Start Programs (income eligible)
National School Lunch Program (eligible for free meals)
Medicaid
Food stamps
Supplemental Security Income
Federal public housing assistance
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program
Income at or below 135% of the Federally Recognized Poverty Guidelines
If you are participating in any of the programs listed, you are eligible for monthly telephone assistance. DTE simply needs a copy of proof of the program from which you are receiving benefits. You can print out a copy of the application form here.
For more information regarding these programs, contact DTE.
For Dubois/Crowheart, call 455-2341.
If you are calling from out of area, call 1-800-877-7699.
