One possibility is that you checked the statement on the web site
https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx that says "All or some of the
TVs in my house subscribe to one or more pay services, such as cable or
satellite."
According to the rule, copied below, you are eligible for a coupon only
if you don't have either cable TV or satellite TV for you analog TV
receivers.
In the NPRM, NTIA proposed to define those U.S. households eligible to
participate in the Coupon Program as “those households that only
receive over-the-air television signals using analog-only television
receivers."^[ 10 ]
<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/DTVFinalRule_2a.htm#ftn010>
NTIA further proposed to make households that receive cable or
satellite television service, even if those households have one or
more analog television signals not connected to such service,
ineligible for the Coupon Program.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2007/DTVFinalRule_2a.htm
Steve Rigby wrote:
I tried to apply for a couple of DTV coupons from the feds this
evening. They tell me I am ineligible for such because I have "already
received coupons" for digital to analog converter boxes.
How would they even know if I had received a coupon if I have not used
it as yet, which I haven't because I have not gotten any blasted DTV
coupons? The website even says that the coupons are not going to be
provided to applicants until February or March of 2008? So, how could
I have gotten them already?
If they meant that I have already applied for such coupons, which I do
not recall having done, that is not what was said. They said I had
received them already. Then, upon trying to appeal this 'decision"
on-line, or to get some kind of answer, I discover that their appeal
dialog box only allows for only about 40 or so characters. Can't make
much of an argument in that amount of space!! Anyway, after severely
truncating my 'appeal' and clicking "SUBMIT," I am informed that my
session has timed out and I am sent back to the start page again.
Various browsers, all with cookies set, end up with the same result
upon the appeal attempt. I betcha it'll work with IE, but at this
point, to heck with the feds trying to make it hard in this poor
little consumer. Their telephone hotline, billed as the place to call
for answers to your questions, is all automated with voice
un-recognition. Good Lord, I should have known better that to begin
the New Year trying to deal with the gummint!
Steve
The URL if you want to abuse
yourself...https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx
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