{"id":19285,"date":"2026-06-22T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/will-i-ever-be-charged-for-my-lifeline-service"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:09:31","slug":"will-i-ever-be-charged-for-my-lifeline-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/will-i-ever-be-charged-for-my-lifeline-service","title":{"rendered":"Will I ever be charged for my Lifeline service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No \u2014 the free Lifeline plan has no monthly charge. You&#8217;re only billed if you choose a paid plan or add-on.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s always free<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Your monthly Lifeline talk, text, and data<\/li>\n<li>Free international calling to 200+ countries<\/li>\n<li>Your free or discounted phone with free delivery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>When charges apply<\/h2>\n<p>Charges only occur if you opt into a paid prepaid plan, a data top-up, or another add-on \u2014 all of which are optional.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/apply?utm_source=help_center&#038;utm_medium=faq_cta&#038;utm_content=will-i-ever-be-charged-for-my-lifeline-service\">Enter your ZIP code<\/a> to start your free Lifeline service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No \u2014 the free Lifeline plan has no monthly charge. You&#8217;re only billed if you choose a paid plan or add-on. What&#8217;s always free Your monthly Lifeline talk, text, and data Free international calling to 200+ countries Your free or discounted phone with free delivery When charges apply Charges only occur if you opt into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billing-payments"],"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":"No \u2014 the free Lifeline plan has no monthly charge. You&#8217;re only billed if you choose a paid plan or add-on. What&#8217;s always free Your monthly Lifeline talk, text, and data Free international calling to 200+ countries Your free or discounted phone with free delivery When charges apply Charges only occur if you opt into [&hellip;]","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/help-center\/billing-payments\" rel=\"category tag\">Billing &amp; Payments<\/a>","comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285","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=19285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19345,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions\/19345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagmobile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}