COVID-19 Updates 12/9

COVID
December 9, 2020
GOVERNOR LAMONT PROVIDES UPDATE ON CONNECTICUT’S CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE EFFORTS (Latest Data as of 4:00PM on Wednesday, December 9, 2020)
Data updates on testing in Connecticut

County-by-county breakdown of current COVID-19 hospitalizations:
 

County

Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations

Fairfield County

365

Hartford County

336

Litchfield County

25

Middlesex County

25

New Haven County

425

New London County

62

Tolland County

9

Windham County

15

Total

1,262

For several additional graphs and tables containing more data, including a list of cases in every municipality, click here.
Step Up Connecticut

Looking for ways to help your fellow Connecticut residents, especially during the holiday season? Join the Step Up Connecticut Team!

Step Up Connecticut is a state initiative to enlist healthy individuals who are able and willing to help in the fight against the ongoing pandemic. Volunteers and staff are crucial to ensuring that our fellow residents have access to goods and services they depend on.

While hospital volunteers and nursing home staff are in high demand, a variety of roles are needed in numerous other fields. Along with health care workers, the state is seeking people willing to:

Additional SNAP benefits coming December 16 to 112,000 households in Connecticut

The Connecticut Department of Social Services today announced that it will provide $16.9 million in Emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) benefits to more than half of Connecticut SNAP-eligible households on Wednesday, December 16 – adding to the $157.2 million in emergency benefits disbursed in April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and November.

Authorized by the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020, the extra food benefits will go to approximately 112,000 households not currently receiving the maximum benefits allowed for their household size. This means that all households enrolled in SNAP will receive the maximum food benefit allowable for their household size, even if they are not usually eligible for the maximum benefit.

Specifically:

  • The Department of Social Services reports that approximately 112,000 of 210,279 SNAP-participating households statewide will receive the emergency benefits in December.
  • With this additional $16.9 million allocation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, emergency benefits are totaling over $174.1 million in additional SNAP assistance statewide during April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December, with commensurate spending in the food economy.
  • The average emergency benefit amount a household will see on its electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card on December 16 is $154.
  • All participating households also received their normal SNAP benefits on the first three days of each month they normally do, according to last name.
  • If a household is granted regular SNAP benefits on or after December 16 and is also eligible for the emergency supplemental benefits, the latter benefits will be added to the EBT card on a Friday, depending on the date of granting.

Emergency benefits allow the household’s SNAP benefit to increase to the maximum allotment for a household of that size as follows:

Household Size

Maximum Benefit Amount

1

$204

2

$374

3

$535

4

$680

5

$807

6

$969

7

$1,071

8

$1,224

For example, if a household of two normally received $274 of SNAP benefits in December, $100 would bring this household up to the maximum benefit for its size. This household will receive a $100 emergency benefit on December 16.

For additional information about SNAP, click here.