Your Results

This page shows you the programs for which you might be able to get help from, based on what you told us today. To make the website easy to use, we didn’t ask everything we need to know to be sure that you qualify for the programs listed here. This means there’s a small chance that even if this website says it looks like you can get help from a program; you may not be able to.

This website is a quick check to see if you might be able to get help with:

·                  Buying Food

·                  Medical Benefits

·                  Cash Assistance

We’ll tell you how to apply for these programs on the next page.

Keep in mind that only some of the people in your home may be able to get help with low- or no-cost health care. If there are people who look like they may not be able to get help from a program you can click the “Learn More” button to get more information on the program.

Help with Buying Food

SNAP

 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a nutrition program that helps low-income individuals and families buy food. The Federal government created the program to help people with low income eat well to stay healthy.

If you are eligible, we put your SNAP benefits in an electronic bank account.

We will give you a plastic Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card to use to buy food at stores that accept EBT. You can use your EBT card at most grocery stores and at some Farmer’s Markets.

You may be able to get SNAP benefits in 7 days if:

1.                 Your household's income is less than $150 per month and your household’s assets are less than $100, or  

2.                 Your rent and utilities are more than your monthly income before deductions, or  

3.                 You are a migrant seasonal farm worker and your household’s cash and money in the bank is less than$100.

Medical Benefits

Connecticut has several health care  programs that help residents get health care coverage:

·                     HUSKY A (for children under 19, parents, pregnant women, and adults who live with and take care of children who are related to them)

·                     HUSKY B (for children under 19)

·                     HUSKY C (for people who are 65 or older, blind, or disabled)

·                     HUSKY D  (for low-income adults ages 19-64)

·                     Medicare Savings Program

·                     Family Planning Services

HUSKY A & HUSKY B

Connecticut children and their parents or a relative caregiver; and pregnant women may be eligible for HUSKY A (also known as Medicaid), depending on family income. 

 Uninsured children under age 19 in higher-income households may be eligible for HUSKY B (also known as the Children’s Health Insurance Program).  Depending on specific income level, family cost-sharing applies.

For more information click the link below

https://www.ct.gov/hh/cwp/view.asp?a=3573&q=421548

HUSKY C

 Connecticut residents aged 65 or older, or who are aged 18 through 64 and who are blind, or who have another disability, may qualify for coverage under HUSKY C (also known as Medicaid for the Aged/Blind/Disabled, or Title 19). 

For more information click the link below

https://www.ct.gov/hh/cwp/view.asp?a=3573&q=421548

HUSKY D

 Connecticut residents aged 19 through 64, who do not qualify for HUSKY A; who do not receive federal Supplemental Security Income or Medicare; and who are not pregnant, may qualify for HUSKY D (also known as Medicaid for Low-Income Adults).

For more information click the link below

https://www.ct.gov/hh/cwp/view.asp?a=3573&q=421548

Medicare Savings Programs

 The Medicare Savings Programs (MSP), also known as Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), Specified Low Income Beneficiary (SLMB) and Additional Low Income Beneficiary (ALMB), help pay for your Medicare premiums. QMB will also pay for your Medicare co-insurance and deductibles. We can only make the payment if the provider accepts Medicaid.

 We do not pay the co-insurance and deductibles under the SLMB and ALMB programs.

FAMILY PLANNING- LIMITED COVERAGE

Connecticut residents of any age who do not receive HUSKY may qualify for this program.  This program extends coverage for family planning services to individuals at no cost even if they already have private health insurance.

Some services covered under this program are:

·         Contraceptive services and supplies

·         Family planning pharmacy visits

·         Pap tests

·         Tubal ligation

·         Tests and treatment for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) including Chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes and syphilis as well as certain other lab tests

·                           Routine preventive primary services only if related to family planning.

Cash Assistance

Temporary Family Assistance (TFA)

Connecticut children and their parents or a relative caregiver; and pregnant women may be eligible for Temporary Family Assistance which is the name for the Jobs First cash assistance program paid to recipients.

Under Jobs First, recipients who get a job are allowed to keep all earnings up to the Federal Poverty Level as well as their cash assistance for the remainder of the 21 months. They are also eligible to receive medical assistance, child care and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Formerly Food Stamp Program).

Child support payments from an absent parent are sent directly to recipients and all but $50 is counted as income to calculate the amount of their public assistance grant.

To provide for future emergencies, recipients are allowed to have up to $3000 in a bank account.

One non-luxury car, with an equity value up to $9500, is excluded from consideration in determining eligibility for assistance.

For more information click the link below

https://portal.ct.gov/DSS/Economic-Security/Economic-Security---Financial-Assistance