May 2021

		Stay Connected with the New Emergency Broadband Benefit – Providing up to a $50.00 Discount on Your Broadband Service What is it? The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program is a new FCC program to help households struggling to pay for internet service during the pandemic. This temporary benefit will help families with challenges such as working from home, distance learning, telehealth services, or simply connecting digitally with loved ones. The EBB will provide a discount of up to $50.00 per month towards broadband service for eligible households. The benefit is limited to one monthly service discount per household. Who is eligible: A household is eligible if one member of the household meets at least one of the criteria below: Qualifies for the Lifeline program; Receives benefits under the free and reduced-price school lunch program or the school breakfast program, including through the USDA Community Eligibility Provision, or did so in the 2019-2020 school year; Received a Federal Pell Grant during the current award year; Experienced a substantial loss of income since February 29, 2020 and the household had a total income in 2020 below $99,000 for single filers and $198,000 for joint filers; or Meets the eligibility criteria for a participating providers’ existing low-income or COVID-19 program. How to apply? For more information and to apply, visit www.wcvt.com/ebb or call 800.496.3391. Lt. Governor Molly Gray Visits WCVT We had the pleasure of hosting the Lieutenant Governor on Friday, April 16th. As anyone who lives in Vermont, April weather can throw a little bit of everything at you and this day didn’t disappoint. Despite the rain, sleet, and snow, the Lieutenant Governor and her Chief of Staff were real troopers and braved the elements in the field. We started off with a tour of our Richmond Central Office. From there, we went out into the field and showed her some of our fiber-optic facilities and made our way out to an optical splitter cabinet in Richmond. We ended the day with a service visit on the Bolton Valley Access Road where Lt. Governor Gray witnessed a fiber installation in a customer's home Throughout the day, the Lieutenant Governor asked some great questions and was very hands on and engaged the entire time. Thank you for taking the time to learn firsthand all of the challenges and opportunities of building rural broadband. Come Join Our Team – We Are Looking for a Customer Service/Internet Support Associate When you become part of the Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom family, you’re joining a one-hundred-year-old organization that values its employees and recognizes the important contribution each one makes to our company’s success. For more information on this job opportunity, click here. Win A $50 Gift Certificate To One Of These Local Golf Courses (4 winners this month)! As you know, each month, we raffle off a prize from a local business in our service area. This month, in an effort to support the businesses in our local community, we will pick four lucky winners who will win a $50 gift certificate to one of the following local golf courses in our service area: Basin Harbor, Cedar Knoll (pictured), Sugarbush, and West Bolton. To be entered into the raffle, simply click the link below and leave your name and contact information. The drawing will take place on Wednesday, June 9. FORE! Click Here To Enter For Your Chance To Win Annual Customer Survey Winner Announced Congratulations to Eileen who was the lucky winner chosen at random from more than 1,100 responses we received to our annual customer satisfaction survey. Upon receiving her prize, an iPad Air at our Hinesburg office, Eileen said "this is better than Christmas!" Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. We truly appreciate your feedback.

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