After reading all of the comments, I am a little bit concerned about society today. PEOPLE WHO MAKE UNDER $15,000 QUALIFY! Meaning, they work and have an income...it's just not a big one. I am a very low income college student and I have done a lot of research to see if any cell phone company could give me a break because I don't make too much working at my university job. Safelink is finally giving me the break from extensive contract phone bills...the breath of fresh air that I needed. Good job Safelink/Tracfone!

how can I donate a tracfone phone to this program?

WTF? Ww should all get 68 free minutes a month. Complete BS, we work for a living and survive without a cell phone. Meanwhile the welfare rats will get them free. Cell phones are NOT a necessity.

Actually, you don't even need any minutes to call 911 because with these track phones, you get unlimited 911 usage.

Who has 68 min. of emergencies a month? Does 911 put them on hold?

sassyass37--- I'm with you on the elderly and the people that are working and trying. We are against the people that are bleeding the system. I know a woman that section 8 pays all her rent, in the mean time she has had three kids. She has a cal phone,massive new tv, new computer, new bedroom set and is perfectly able to work but doesn't. I believe she is watching other kids for people under the table. These are the people we are targeting and there are a whole bunch of them.

This could be nice for the elderly/disabled to have a phone on them all the time incase they need help or in an emergency.

cheeseburg- This program has been around for awhile in other states, it is just getting around to NY. That means the program was instituted during the Presidency of G.W.Bush. (Nice try attempting to blame it on Obama, though. )

Where are the programs for the working class. If you are a family of 4 making 30,000 u dont need a phone everyone that u need to talk to is sitting next to, not working either. we feed them pay their rent and now we are paying for them to call ssi and make sure there checks in the mail, thats the only "emergency" theyll be calling about

It's more like the new world DISorder. And in it, everyone gets beer, but it really won't be free.