March 7, 2025 – The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, which is responsible for the FCC’s policies and programs focused on closing the digital divide, announced the Rural Health Care (RHC) programs’ annual caps for funding year 2025. These caps represent a 2.4% inflation-adjusted increase from 2024. The RHC funding cap for FY2025 is $723,892,841, with the internal cap for upfront payments and multi-year commitments in the Healthcare Connect Fund program being $182,780,877.

Read the full announcement here.