Free Cell Phones for Senior Citizens and Those Who Need It through Safe Link Wireless: the family phone
The unfortunate circumstance is that a lot of senior citizens are not well off financially but yet they are still in need of some sort of communication device. Do any of the following questions apply to you?
• Has your home phone been turned off?
• Do you currently have a cell phone but you don’t have any minutes for it?
• Are you simply unable to pay for a cell phone at all?
If any of those questions are answered yes how are you planning on contacting someone in case of an emergency? For many of us this isn’t something that we will have to worry about but for many people it is a very real problem and a problem that doesn’t seem to have a solution.
A lot of these people are seniors and they could easily find themselves along and injured without any possible way to contact someone should an accident happen.
There is a solution now. The government has come up with a solution to this problem through the offering of a free government cell phone. In addition to that there are monthly minutes. All of this is of course subject to qualification.
If you’re someone that is handicapped, currently draw disability or purely live on a very low income you can potentially qualify for this very unique program. Through working with Safe Link Wireless almost all states are offering a government funded program which allows qualifying citizens to receive both a phone and the minutes without incurring any personal cost.
Both the minutes and the phone will vary a little from state to state but regardless of the differences the core remains the same of the free phone with the free monthly minute allotment. If any of the monthly minutes go unused they will simply rollover to the following month. There are some features which will come free with the phone service as well, like call waiting, caller id and even a voicemail box.
Regardless of the state in which you live the phone is almost always just going to be offered to one person in the home. The reason for this is that the phone serves the purpose of being a family phone. You’ll most likely qualify for the free program if you are:
• On food stamps
• On disability
• In a government housing program
• A family member is drawing SSI
One additional qualification for the program is that you must have a physical address. The phone is going to be mailed to you and the program isn’t one that allows a PO Box, your address must have a physical location.
Before the phone is sent to you there will be some questions that you’ll have to answer and you’ll have to provide proof of income in order to participate. The phone must be and stay in the name of the person that has qualified to participate in the program.
Once you’ve qualified for the program and you get your phone it is yours to keep. Even if you end up dropping out of the program or find yourself better off and don’t qualify you can always just purchase minutes for the phone yourself.
There are annual verification audits that are done through the choosing a participant at random and they must prove their continued eligibility for the program. They are done according to law and are connected to the program.
Through applying and getting involved into the program you’ll no longer have to have the worry that there is going to be an emergency and you won’t be able to reach out and get help. The Safe Link Wireless program is something that can bring relief. It takes very little time and is well worth it to get the peace of mind that comes with the program.
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- Free Government Cell Phones in New York
- Free Senior Cell Phones for Those In Need
- Free Government Cell Phones through ReachOut Wireless
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Tags: Cell phone plans, Cell Phones, cell phones for seniors
May 11th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
There are many a situation when my base phone doesn’t work.So, information about this service is quite useful
May 12th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I think that I need it because my mom is very ill and sometimes I’m at the clinic and she stays home alone and sometimes I need to call her and my father drives her to somewhere else and I need to inform her that she doesn’t miss her appointment.
May 27th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I had a cell phone in Florida and when we moved to Pa it was terminated. I changed my address to 240 Ram Dr Apt 223 Hanover Pa 17331 and really need a phone which we can not afford. If this program is available to us heere we would appreciate knowing about it.
Our old cell phone number was 772-293-1061 Thank you
May 27th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
How do we apply?
May 30th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
I would like information on how to recieve a free cell phone for senoir citizens
November 21st, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I HAVE TRIED TWICE ON THE WEB TO GET A PHONE BUT I NEVER RECEIVED THEM
November 21st, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Hi Patricia,
Here is the link for safelink.com’s contact us.
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/contact_us.aspx
I would recommend that you send them an email or perhaps givw them a call and explain your situation.
November 29th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
The safelink wireless company does work and i recived my phone with the 250 plan i selected in exactely a week..
THANKS SAFELINK
December 7th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Will be 82 in Feb. Have a heart problem.
Need phone.
Bill
December 7th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Bill, sorry to hear about your health issues. Please visit the following link to get going: https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx
You’ll enter your zip code to find out if the service is available in your area and it will take you step-by-step through the process.
-Matt
January 21st, 2011 at 9:46 am
Why can’t those of us that are not on any of these government programs get a cell phone even though we have a low-income? Social Security
January 21st, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Hi Archie, just part of their policy. I wish I had a better answer for you than that. You could call them up and explain your situation. I’ve never heard of any exceptions but your location could be different. There is a state by state variance.
January 29th, 2011 at 7:22 am
I am on Link and i recieved a “Free” phone from SafeLink.
It was a used phone and a used phone number and the display did not work right. it kept going blank and I had to constantly reboot the phone.
Also, I constantly got calls from collection agencies looking for the previous owner of the phone.
Then, the display stopped working altogether. I spent SEVERAL hours with SafeLink customer service, getting the eternal run around, and the phone was never fixed or replaced. I also sent out MANY emails complaining, to which they did NOTHING.
I did have a free phone for 2 months, but now I have nothing and I can not qualify for another provider because (un)SafeLink won’t let me go.
BEWARE OF (un)SAFELINK
January 30th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Sorry that you had a horrible experience Rocky. That’s bound to happen to some no matter where you go. Not to diminish from your bad experience at all but this isn’t the norm. If you need an outlet and are reading this it’s a great option to go for.
August 5th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Great feed back on this article. Our lead writer Matt has taken an interest in the areas of free government cell phones and cell phones for seniors. He has written extensively. I would recommend using the search box of the site to view more of his writing.
Thanks again for sharing. Very good to see this rigorous back and forth on such an important subject.