{"id":19270,"date":"2026-06-22T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/how-do-i-qualify-for-a-free-government-phone-from-tag-mobile"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:09:09","slug":"how-do-i-qualify-for-a-free-government-phone-from-tag-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/how-do-i-qualify-for-a-free-government-phone-from-tag-mobile","title":{"rendered":"How do I qualify for a free government phone from TAG Mobile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You qualify if your household income is at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or if you participate in a qualifying government assistance program.<\/p>\n<h2>Two ways to qualify<\/h2>\n<p>You can qualify either by <strong>program participation<\/strong> (such as SNAP, Medicaid, or SSI) or by <strong>household income<\/strong> at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. You only need to meet one of these.<\/p>\n<h2>What counts as a household<\/h2>\n<p>Lifeline defines a household as a group of people who live together and share income and expenses. The benefit is limited to one per household.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/apply?utm_source=help_center&#038;utm_medium=faq_cta&#038;utm_content=how-do-i-qualify-for-a-free-government-phone-from-tag-mobile\">Enter your ZIP code<\/a> to check if you qualify in your area.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You qualify if your household income is at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or if you participate in a qualifying government assistance program. Two ways to qualify You can qualify either by program participation (such as SNAP, Medicaid, or SSI) or by household income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eligibility-application"],"featured_image_src":"","featured_image_src_square":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"khai do","author_link":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/author\/khaido\/"},"rbea_author_info":{"display_name":"khai do","author_link":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/author\/khaido\/"},"rbea_excerpt_info":"You qualify if your household income is at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or if you participate in a qualifying government assistance program. Two ways to qualify You can qualify either by program participation (such as SNAP, Medicaid, or SSI) or by household income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty [&hellip;]","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/help-center\/eligibility-application\" rel=\"category tag\">Eligibility &amp; Application<\/a>","comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19331,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions\/19331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}