Connecticut renters who applied for rebate assistance will see checks soon - FOX61 Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. — Nearly $24 cardinal successful authorities funds volition beryllium distributed to thousands of Connecticut's elder citizens and radical with disabilities who request assistance successful paying rent.

The checks totaling $23.9 cardinal volition beryllium distributed this week to those who applied to the Connecticut Renters' Rebate Program done the Office of Policy and Management, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday.

Around 45,000 Connecticut residents volition person an mean rebate of $540.

The rebate magnitude is based connected an income standard and the rent and inferior payments made successful the twelvemonth earlier applying for a rebate.

“This programme makes it imaginable for thousands of Connecticut’s seniors and individuals with disabilities to spend to enactment successful their homes and unrecorded with information and independence,” Lamont said. “Helping our astir susceptible residents is 1 of the indispensable functions of government, and this programme provides entree to homes that are harmless and affordable. Many of those receiving assistance person dedicated their lives to our state, person been moving here, are raising their families here, and are contributing successful endless ways to marque our communities stronger.”

Renters person until Nov. 15 to taxable a petition for an hold to record an exertion if they missed the designated filing period. A doctor's enactment is required to marque a request, saying that the renter had a aesculapian information that factored into delaying the renter's quality to nonstop successful an exertion connected time.

The rebate programme has helped Connecticut's renters who are elder citizens oregon person definite disabilities since 1974.

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