Connecticut leaders announce fund to supplement federal cuts in health and human services

Time to rethink human services as Trump administration dumps costs on counties

And now the federal government is dumping their budget problem on counties.

Connecticut Sets Aside $500 Million Safety Net As Shutdown Threatens Food, Heat, and Health Programs

The reserve temporarily redirects money normally used to pay down pension liabilities into a restricted account within the state’s $4.3 billion rainy-day fund. It can be tapped only if programs such as SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP or Affordable Care Act subsidies lose federal support.

Swelling CT revenues could intensify response to federal cuts

Already anticipating huge surpluses this budget cycle and next, Connecticut’s coffers will swell even more, state analysts projected Monday, thanks to surging income and business tax receipts tied to a robust stock market in 2025. The swelling projections — about $1.1 billion in extra revenue this fiscal year and an average of $500 million more in each of the next two — likely will expand calls for further state tax cuts and greater investments …

State to create emergency fund to cover costs of federal benefits during shutdown

Even as lawmakers in Congress were moving forward with a deal to reopen the federal government, state leaders stood by their plan Monday for an emergency fund designed as a response to the shutdown. Gov. Ned Lamont will declare a fiscal emergency on Wednesday, paving the way for lawmakers to vote to set aside $500 million for the emergency fund. That fund would allow the state to pay for federal benefits that have been or could be frozen if the …

Bipartisan group of state leaders announce state response to health, human services cuts

Democratic and Republican leaders in Connecticut on Monday announced the state’s response to the Trump administration’s cuts to health and human services.

Lamont, CT lawmakers tap $500 million surplus to offset federal cuts

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D)(Molly Ingram / WSHU)Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and state legislative leaders have agreed on a bipartisan plan to use $500 million from the state’s surplus to backstop federal cuts to social safety net programs.Lawmakers will vote on the deal in a special session in the House on Wednesday and in the Senate on Thursday.The agreement grants Lamont the authority to utilize the emergency fund to offset federal cut…