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If you're homeless or low income, there are programs through DHS that will send you a free phone and plan. It's not a great phone, but they still give people the ability to apply for jobs online, contact hospitals/case workers/ shelters, and to be safe in case of an emergency. I'm not sure if other states have it, but Michigan and Colorado do
they also set up tables at stores with a lot of poor people (like dollar stores), and they have free phones and set them up for you right there….
i’ve got several phones that way… for a while they had good data, but congress just ended ACP….
never trust anyone with a free DHS cell phone.
I got to hear your reason for this.
I think maybe they meant 'department of health and human services' (what its called at the county level here, federal umbrella project is from... I think the FCC), not 'department of homeland security', which is what's generally meant when one says DHS, and has the DHS.gov website linked in my previous comment. anyone who gets a cell phone paid for by the DHS is a fed, including undercovers, which are generally regarded as untrustworthy by people with more than three figures of brain cells.
next time just click the link so I don't have to explain the joke.