{"id":141236,"date":"2021-05-11T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=141236"},"modified":"2021-05-11T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:07:39","slug":"broadband-program-helps-pay-for-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/broadband-program-helps-pay-for-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband program helps pay for internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hilo-laptop-grnc.jpg\" alt=\"person working on laptop\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-126761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hilo-laptop-grnc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hilo-laptop-grnc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hilo-laptop-grnc-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> &#699;ohana may qualify for a new federal program that can help pay for internet service. The <a href=\"https:\/\/broadband.hawaii.gov\/ebb\/\">Emergency Broadband Benefit Program<\/a> has been established to assist thousands of households across the state, and those who are eligible can receive up to $50 a month to pay for their broadband service. Those who live on Hawaiian Home Lands may qualify for an additional benefit of up to $75 per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/GetEmergencyBroadband.org\">Applications open on May 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants will be eligible if a member of their household:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has received a Federal Pell Grant during the current award year;<\/li>\n<li>Has an income that is at or below 135% of the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/poverty-guidelines\">Federal Poverty Guidelines<\/a> or participates in certain assistance programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/lifeline-consumers\">Lifeline<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Is approved to receive benefits under the free and reduced-price school lunch program or the school breakfast program, including through the <abbr>USDA<\/abbr> Community Eligibility Provision in the 2019&#8211;20 or 2020&#8211;21 school year;<\/li>\n<li>Has experienced a substantial loss of income due to job loss or furlough since February 29, 2020, and the household had a total income in 2020 at or below $99,000 for single filers and $198,000 for joint filers; or<\/li>\n<li>Meets the eligibility criteria for a participating provider&#8217;s existing low-income or COVID-19 program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The program is limited to one monthly service discount per household. Eligible households may also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 toward the purchase of a laptop, desktop computer or tablet from participating <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> internet service providers if the household contributes a minimum of $10 towards the purchase price.<\/p>\n<p>The participating <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> internet service providers for the Emergency Broadband Benefit program currently include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Broadband and Telecommunications Company<\/li>\n<li><abbr>AT&#38;T<\/abbr><\/li>\n<li>Charter Spectrum<\/li>\n<li>Cricket Wireless<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii Dialogix Telecom<\/li>\n<li>Hawaiian Telcom<\/li>\n<li>Selectel Wireless<\/li>\n<li>T-Mobile<\/li>\n<li>Verizon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadband.hawaii.gov\/ebb\/\">More information on the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are eligible can receive up to $50 a month to pay for their broadband service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-141236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141248,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141236\/revisions\/141248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}