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Or by people formerly paying for their internet service with money that should have been going toward food or heat.
Exactly.
It's also important to note that some ISPs created a low-cost service plan specifically for ACP. (It's reasonable to assume this was possible in part because ACP eliminated the costs of income verification, individual billing, and credit card payments.) That plan will likely disappear if ACP goes away, leaving poor people stuck paying a bill much higher than the program ever paid.