Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FTB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FTB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information.
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FTB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FTB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Michigan consumers submit an average of 17,852 Lifeline applications per month, according to National Verifier application data for a recent 3-month period in 2020. Based on 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 59% of households eligible for Lifeline in Michigan to automatically prove eligibility via National Verifier connections with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) databases. Based on 2019 ACS data, USAC expects an additional 13% of households eligible for Lifeline in Michigan whose eligibility cannot be confirmed through the available federal databases to be able to automatically prove eligibility via a connection to the state’s SNAP, SSI, and Medicaid databases due to their participation in SNAP, SSI, and Medicaid. Thus, on a monthly basis, approximately 2,321 (13% of 17,852) Michigan consumers may be able to automatically prove eligibility via the state SNAP, SSI, and Medicaid databases and would not be required to submit paper documentation for National Verifier manual review. At the cost of $3 per application, the manual review process results in a monthly cost of $6,962 and an annual cost of $83,547 to the Lifeline program. There are no incremental costs for automated database checks. The connection to Michigan’s SNAP, SSI, and Medicaid databases would thus enable the National Verifier to avoid an estimated $83,547 in annual costs to the Lifeline program as a result of automated eligibility verification for new applications that would otherwise require manual review. There will be additional cost savings from avoiding manual reviews for EBBP and any future FTB programs, although it is uncertain at this time exactly how many eligibility checks will be conducted for those programs. RECERTIFICATION NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Approximately 168,836 Michigan subscribers undergo the eligibility recertification process on an annual basis, according to...
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FCB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FCB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Nevada consumers submit an average of 24,166 Lifeline applications per month, according to National Verifier application data for a recent 3-month period in 2022. Based on 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 52% of households eligible for Lifeline in Nevada to automatically prove eligibility via National Verifier connections with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) databases. Based on 2020 ACS data, USAC expects an additional 15% of households eligible for Lifeline in Nevada whose eligibility cannot be confirmed through the available federal databases to be able to automatically prove eligibility via a connection to the state’s SNAP and Medicaid databases due to their participation in SNAP and Medicaid. Thus, on a monthly basis, approximately 3,609 (15% of 24,166) Nevada consumers may be able to automatically prove eligibility via the state SNAP and Medicaid databases and would not be required to submit paper documentation for National Verifier manual review. At the cost of $3 per application, the manual review process results in a monthly cost of $10,287 and an annual cost of $129,927 to the Lifeline program. There are no incremental costs for automated database checks. The connection to Nevada’s SNAP and Medicaid databases would thus enable the National Verifier to avoid an estimated $149,817 in annual costs to the Lifeline program as a result of automated eligibility verification for new applications that would otherwise require manual review. There will be additional cost savings from avoiding manual reviews for the ACP and any future FCB programs, although it is uncertain at this time exactly how many eligibility checks will be conducted for those programs. RECERTIFICATION NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Approximately 44,392 Nevada subscribers undergo the eligibility recertification process on an annual basis, according to recent 2022 National Lifeline Acco...
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. Based on historical data, USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of Lifeline program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering the Lifeline program. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. Approximately 7 million subscribers participate in the Lifeline program, of which approximately 255,000 subscribers qualified for Lifeline by demonstrating receipt of federal SNAP or Medicaid benefits provided through DCF. At this time, subscriber eligibility based on federal SNAP or Medicaid benefits provided through DCF is verified manually by the service providers who participate in the Lifeline program. Going forward, this responsibility will be transferred to USAC as the National Verifier, and performed through an automated and streamlined process. Under the manual process, USAC estimates it costs service providers approximately $5 per subscriber to perform enrollment and recertification functions each year. Without the automated computer matching process, the cost of this manual review would shift from the service providers to USAC and would be funded by the federal Fund. Once the National Verifier is developed and operating at full capacity utilizing computer matching processes with DCF and other federal and state agencies, USAC estimates that the cost to enroll and recertify will be reduced to approximately $1 per subscriber where automated verification is enabled. This results in annual savings of approximately $1,020,000 specifically related to the 642,000 subscribers who qualified for Lifeline by demonstrating receipt of federal SNAP or Medicaid benefits provided through DCF. Given that many other subscribers likely could have used receipt of federal SNAP or Medicaid benefits as a qualifying criterion rather than another program, this has the potential to create annual savings across the full Lifeline population of up to approximately $21 million per year.
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FCB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FCB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. USAC estimates that roughly 500 Lifeline and 1,000 ACP applicants per month will not be required to upload Veterans Pension and Survivors Pension benefits documentation with the connection in place. This could result in $4,500 in monthly savings related to eligibility documentation review, at $3 per application.
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FTB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FTB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Indiana consumers submit an average of 12,303 Lifeline applications per month, according to National Verifier application data for a recent 3-month period in 2020. Based on 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 48% of households eligible for Lifeline in Indiana to automatically prove eligibility via National Verifier connections with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) databases. Based on 2019 ACS data, USAC expects an additional 12% of households eligible for Lifeline in Indiana whose eligibility cannot be confirmed through the available federal databases to be able to automatically prove eligibility via a connection to the state’s SNAP and Medicaid databases due to their participation in SNAP and Medicaid. Thus, on a monthly basis, approximately 1,476 (12% of 12,303) Indiana consumers may be able to automatically prove eligibility via the state SNAP and Medicaid databases and would not be required to submit paper documentation for National Verifier manual review. At the cost of $3 per application, the manual review process results in a monthly cost of $4,429 and an annual cost of $53,149 to the Lifeline program. There are no incremental costs for automated database checks. The connection to Indiana’s SNAP and Medicaid databases would thus enable the National Verifier to avoid an estimated $53,149 in annual costs to the Lifeline program as a result of automated eligibility verification for new applications that would otherwise require manual review. There will be additional cost savings from avoiding manual reviews for EBBP and any future FTB programs, although it is uncertain at this time exactly how many eligibility checks will be conducted for those programs. RECERTIFICATION NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Approximately 90,964 Indiana subscribers undergo the eligibility recertification process on an annual basis, according to recent 2020 National Lifeline Acco...
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of FCB program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering FCB programs. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS In the most recent Computer Matching Agreement that the Parties executed in August 2021, the Parties estimated that the benefits of this program would greatly outweigh its costs. This estimate was based partly on the fact that the cost of verifying an applicant or subscriber’s eligibility through the automated process described in this Agreement would be significantly less expensive than the cost of manually reviewing evidence that an applicant or subscriber qualifies for Lifeline benefits. It was also based on the fact that an automated review conducted by USAC (rather than by the eligible telecommunications carrier that provides the service) would reduce waste, fraud and, abuse in the Lifeline program. Since the most recent matching agreement was executed in August 2021, the actual cost- benefit results of the matching program were consistent with those the Parties estimated in the initial April 2017 Agreement. For example, over this period, the National Verifier used the automated connection between USAC and HUD to approve at least 324,154 Lifeline applicants and subscribers who qualified through their participation in a HUD program. USAC estimates that these successful automated checks saved the Lifeline program more than $972,462 compared to the cost of manual eligibility verification. There will be additional cost savings from avoiding manual reviews for the ACP and any future FCB programs. For example, since May 2021, the National Verifier used the automated connection between USAC and HUD to approve at least 235,347 ACP applicants and subscribers who qualified through their participation in a HUD program. USAC estimates that these successful automated checks saved the ACP more than $706,041 compared to the cost of manual eligibility verification.
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. Based on historical data, HUD and the Grantee anticipate that computer matching will help eliminate duplication of benefits. In response to hurricanes Xxxxxxx and Xxxx, an estimated 27 percent of the more than 160,000 recipients of HUD’s CDBG-DR xxxxxxx homeowner rehabilitation programs had received IHP assistance from FEMA. The two forms of assistance may not be duplicative if they do not cover the same need. However, the risk of CDBG-DR assistance duplicating IHP assistance increases if the homeowner received both forms of assistance. In the Xxxxxxx-Xxxx data examples in the above paragraph, since no computer matching agreement or automated duplication of benefits check was in place, the staff implementing the recovery benefits could not allocate the funds in a timely manner due to a delay caused by manually checking for duplication of benefits. Due to delays, half of the homeowners who experienced damage from Hurricane Xxxxxxx did not complete rebuilding until 18 months or more after the event. With this Agreement and an automated duplication of benefits check in place, homeowners will be able to rebuild faster due to the quick, accurate, and efficient allocation of funds resulting from the elimination of the manual and error-prone duplication of benefits check. In addition, HUD also benefits from the CMA. HUD analysis of performance reports from its CDBG-DR xxxxxxxx supporting disaster recovery for disasters occurring between 2011 and 2019 finds an average of more than 10,000 homeowners assisted with CDBG-DR grants each year. HUD’s research after Xxxxxxx-Xxxx identified that 27 percent of CDBG-DR homeowners receiving both CDBG-DR and FEMA funding for home rehabilitation. Therefore, if CDBG-DR grantees receive timely data on FEMA assistance before making CDBG-DR awards, the HUD computer matching agreements with CDBG-DR xxxxxxxx could assist CDBG-DR xxxxxxxx with ensuring that FEMA resources are accounted for, and thus avoid duplication of benefit risk for the estimated annual 2,700 homeowners per year (or 18,900 over the seven-year period) that are estimated to be served by both FEMA IHP and CDBG-DR-funded housing repair or rehabilitation assistance. With an estimated cost of $5,000 per applicant, the total amounts of rehabilitation costs that risk being improperly charged to CDBG-DR xxxxxx equals $13.5 million per year, making $94.5 million over the seven-year period of the analysis.
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of Lifeline program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering the Lifeline program. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Minnesota consumers submit an average of 20,080 Lifeline applications per month, according to National Verifier application data for a recent 3-month period in 2022. Based on 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 62% of households eligible for Lifeline in Minnesota to automatically prove eligibility via National Verifier connections with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) databases. Based on 2020 ACS data, USAC expects an additional 8% of households eligible for Lifeline in Minnesota whose eligibility cannot be confirmed through the available federal databases to be able to automatically prove eligibility via a connection to the state’s SNAP and Medicaid databases due to their participation in SNAP and Medicaid. Thus, on a monthly basis, approximately 1,512 (7.5% of 20,080) Minnesota consumers may be able to automatically prove eligibility via the state SNAP and Medicaid databases and would not be required to submit paper documentation for National Verifier manual review. At the cost of $3 per application, the manual review process results in a monthly cost of $4,536 and an annual cost of $54,432 to the Lifeline program. There are no incremental costs for automated database checks. The connection to Minnesota’s SNAP and Medicaid databases would thus enable the National Verifier to avoid an estimated $54,432 in annual costs to the Lifeline program as a result of automated eligibility verification for new applications that would otherwise require manual review. RECERTIFICATION NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Approximately 42,583 Minnesota subscribers undergo the eligibility recertification process on an annual basis, according to recent 2022 National Lifeline Accountability Database (NLAD) data. Based on 2020 ACS data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 62% of households eli...
Expected Results - Cost-Benefit Analysis. USAC anticipates that computer matching will verify the eligibility of Lifeline program subscribers and help prevent ineligible individuals from entering the Lifeline program. This Agreement and related processes will also reduce administrative costs for processing and provide increased protection for consumer personal information. The Lifeline specific costs and benefits are as follows: DocuSign Envelope ID: 3F1B0D8B-4768-4177-AB66-2B4427627F96 NEW NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Wisconsin consumers submit an average of 28,619 Lifeline applications per month, according to National Verifier application data for a recent 3-month period in 2022. Based on 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) data that USAC uses to estimate the number of households eligible for the Lifeline benefit, USAC expects as many as 56% of households eligible for Lifeline in Wisconsin to automatically prove eligibility via National Verifier connections with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) databases. Based on 2020 ACS data, USAC expects an additional 43% of households eligible for Lifeline in Wisconsin whose eligibility cannot be confirmed through the available federal databases to be able to automatically prove eligibility via a connection to the state’s SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, and Income Verification databases due to their participation in SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, and Income Verification. Thus, on a monthly basis, approximately 12,311 (43% of 28,619) Wisconsin consumers may be able to automatically prove eligibility via the state SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, and Income Verification databases and would not be required to submit paper documentation for National Verifier manual review. At the cost of $3 per application, the manual review process results in a monthly cost of $36,933 and an annual cost of $443,197 to the Lifeline program. There are no incremental costs for automated database checks. The connection to Wisconsin’s SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, and Income Verification databases would thus enable the National Verifier to avoid an estimated $443,197 in annual costs to the Lifeline program as a result of automated eligibility verification for new applications that would otherwise require manual review. RECERTIFICATION NATIONAL VERIFIER APPLICATIONS Approximately 62,169 Wisconsin subscribers undergo the eligibility recertification process on an annual basis, according to recent 2022 National Lifeline Accountability Database (...
