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Applies to: E-Rate applicants who invoice using the BEAR method What’s happening Beginning September 8, 2026, USAC will use SAM.gov banking information to pay all Universal Service Fund (USF) invoices. Every invoice paid on or after that date will be disbursed to the bank account tied to your entity’s SAM.gov registration — not to any account previously on file with USAC. Who needs to

Category Two equipment and other one-time services must be delivered and installed by month’s end. Two new checklists walk applicants and service providers through it. Funding Year 2025 recurring services wrapped up on June 30, 2026, but the year is not closed. Non-recurring services — Category Two equipment, internal connections, installation labor, basic maintenance — carry a separate deadline of September 30, 2026. The

The FCC’s review of the E-Rate program has moved from “something we heard about” to “something with deadlines.” We’ve put together a single timeline covering how the program got here, exactly where we are right now, and what comes next — so schools, districts, libraries, consortia, and service providers can all work from the same calendar. The two dates that matter most: comments are