By the end of the year, 25,000 low-income residents of Philadelphia will have access to free SEPTA fares, city officials say.
The city’s two-year Zero Fare program will provide all-access public transit passes for people living in poverty. The goal is to enroll up to 25,000, making the program one of the most expansive in the country, according to experts.Over the last month, fully loaded SEPTA Key Cards have appeared in 1,000 mailboxes across Philadelphia, the beginning of the city’s two-year Zero Fare program to provide all-access public transit passes for people living in poverty.
To pick 90% of the low-income recipients of the free Key Cards, city officials entered into a lottery people between the ages of 18 and 64 who had received a benefit targeted at low-income households within the last year, Mammes said. That ensures that people who get cards are eligible and don’t need to go through more red tape, she said, and the lottery was used to make the process fair.
To qualify for Zero Fare, recipients can make up to 150% of the federal poverty rate, or $29,580 for a two-member household and $45,000 for a household of four. SEPTA officials say that the first recipients have used their new Key Cards about 7,000 times so far for rides on the system. The program covers fares for all SEPTA services: buses, trolleys, transit trains, Regional Rail and the paratransit and CCT rides.
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