Disability Statement
Telecommunications Access Program
TAP provides specialized telephones FREE to those that qualify.
Are you or someone you know frustrated trying to use the telephone? Is it difficult to hear or understand the conversation? Do others have a hard time hearing you, or ask you to repeat yourself often? Is it challenging to dial a phone with small buttons or hard to read displays? Perhaps you don’t always hear the telephone ring or can’t get to the telephone in time before the caller hangs up.
The Telecommunications Access Program (TAP) can provide you with a telephone specifically designed to help you with any of these difficulties.
TAP provides specialized telephones FREE to those that qualify. Missouri residents with existing wireline (house) telephone service and income below $60,000 per year (for a household of 2, add $5000 per dependent) will qualify if certified as having a disability that interferes with hearing, seeing, speech, mobility or cognition. TAP provides equipment only, consumer is responsible for the telephone service.
Call 800-655-6700 or visit www.at.mo.gov to learn more about this free internet service for disabled program to benefit Missouri residents who qualify.
