I suspect that the held payments may be related to recent criminal charges filed against some providers of VRS. Here is a video of the FCC's position:
http://signcasts.com/node/285I can see how a service like this would be easy to exploit for profit. However, I would not want to punish everyone for what a few people have done (as Congress did with ACORN).
Here are a couple of links about concerns with the FCC changes.
http://www.nad.org/news/2010/1/fcc-actions-block-consumer-vrs-callshttp://www.sorensonvrs.com/