{"id":19272,"date":"2026-06-22T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/can-i-qualify-based-on-my-income-instead-of-a-program"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:09:12","slug":"can-i-qualify-based-on-my-income-instead-of-a-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/can-i-qualify-based-on-my-income-instead-of-a-program","title":{"rendered":"Can I qualify based on my income instead of a program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes \u2014 you can qualify with proof of household income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, even if you don&#8217;t participate in a program.<\/p>\n<h2>Accepted proof of income<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior-year state or federal tax return<\/li>\n<li>Three consecutive months of recent pay stubs<\/li>\n<li>Social Security or other benefit statement<\/li>\n<li>Unemployment or Veterans benefits statement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How the income limit works<\/h2>\n<p>The 135% limit is based on your household size \u2014 the more people in your household, the higher the qualifying income limit.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/apply?utm_source=help_center&#038;utm_medium=faq_cta&#038;utm_content=can-i-qualify-based-on-my-income-instead-of-a-program\">Enter your ZIP code<\/a> to check your eligibility.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes \u2014 you can qualify with proof of household income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, even if you don&#8217;t participate in a program. Accepted proof of income Prior-year state or federal tax return Three consecutive months of recent pay stubs Social Security or other benefit statement Unemployment or Veterans benefits statement [&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-19272","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":"Yes \u2014 you can qualify with proof of household income at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, even if you don&#8217;t participate in a program. Accepted proof of income Prior-year state or federal tax return Three consecutive months of recent pay stubs Social Security or other benefit statement Unemployment or Veterans benefits statement [&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\/19272","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=19272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}