{"id":191,"date":"2009-02-26T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:28","slug":"free-cellphones-for-low-income-ny-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/free-cellphones-for-low-income-ny-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Free cellphones for low-income NY households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TracFone Wireless launches SafeLink Wireless in New York, making cellphone use free to low-income families eligible for the Lifeline utilities program. Lifeline is a U.S. government supported program for income eligible families that ensures telephone service is available and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>The service will provide eligible households a free cell phone, mobile access to emergency services and free 68 minutes of air time, monthly for a one year term which the customer can apply to extend the following year. The free cell phone offers all of the convenient features customers want in a phone: voicemail, text, call waiting, international calling to over 60 destinations and caller ID.<\/p>\n<p>The program is currently available in several states (unfortunately, not New Jersey). New York residents can apply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safelinkwireless.com\/EnrollmentPublic\/home.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TracFone Wireless launches SafeLink Wireless in New York, making cellphone use free to low-income families eligible for the Lifeline utilities program. Lifeline is a U.S. government supported program for income eligible families that ensures telephone service is available and affordable. The service will provide eligible households a free cell phone, mobile access to emergency services &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/free-cellphones-for-low-income-ny-households\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free cellphones for low-income NY households&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,28],"tags":[178,180,179,177,176],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-free-or-almost","tag-free-cellphone","tag-free-wireless","tag-lifeline","tag-safelink-wireless","tag-tracfone-wireless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}