Phone and Internet Discount — a Veterans or Survivors Pension Is a Qualifying Programme
Oregon Lifeline lists the Veterans or Survivors Pension Benefit among the programmes that qualify a household. Up to $20.25 a month off phone service or up to $24.25 off high-speed internet, with an additional $25 a month for tribal residents.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
Oregon Lifeline lists the Veterans or Survivors Pension Benefit among the programmes that qualify a household. Up to $20.25 a month off phone service or up to $24.25 off high-speed internet, with an additional $25 a month for tribal residents.
What it's worth: Up to $20.25 a month off phone, or up to $24.25 off high-speed internet
- The commission lists Veterans or Survivors Pension Benefit among the qualifying programmes, alongside food assistance, Medicaid, supplemental security income, federal public housing assistance and several tribal programmes.
- A household also qualifies on income at or below 135 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
- The published discounts are up to $20.25 a month for phone service and up to $24.25 a month for high-speed internet, with an additional $25 a month for tribal residents.
- The annual figure shown is twelve months at the $20.25 phone rate. The internet discount is higher and a free wireless voice and data option is described, so the actual figure depends on what you take.
- Federal and state rules limit the benefit to one person per household for phone or high-speed internet service.
Who is entitled to it
- The pension route reaches the veteran and the survivor drawing the survivors pension.
- Your home is in Oregon.
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How to claim it
- 1Use the pension as your qualifying programme if you have one. It sits on the list beside food assistance and Medicaid, and most people never look past those two.
- 2Have documentation of the pension benefit ready. Food assistance and Medicaid are described as needing no documentation; the pension route is not on that no-documentation list.
- 3Choose the discount that matches what you actually pay for: up to $20.25 a month on phone, or up to $24.25 a month on high-speed internet.
- 4Ask about the free wireless voice and data option before paying for anything. The commission describes one.
- 5If you live on tribal lands, say so — an additional $25 a month is published for tribal residents.
- 6One benefit per household. Work out which household member should hold it before two people apply.
- 7A survivor drawing the survivors pension is inside the same door. That is worth telling a widow or widower who assumes the benefit died with the veteran.
- Form
- Oregon Lifeline free service application, or the discounted service application
- File with
- A participating provider, using the commission’s application form
- Annual recertification
- The office asks you to confirm each year.
Sources
- authority · published policyPublic Utility Commission — Oregon Lifeline (qualifying programmes including Veterans or Survivors Pension Benefit; up to $20.25 a month for phone and $24.25 for high-speed internet; additional $25 for tribal residents; one benefit per household)
- operating · published policyPublic Utility Commission — Telephone and High-Speed Internet Assistance Programs, listing Oregon Lifeline alongside the device access and relay programmes
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