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Interest in the new $1,000 pandemic bonuses that Connecticut officials dangled before essential workers is more than eight times the program’s maximum capacity.
Comptroller Natalie Braswell’s office reported Wednesday that more than 255,000 people...
Interest in the new $1,000 pandemic bonuses that state officials dangled before essential, private-sector workers this spring is more than eight times the program’s maximum capacity to issue full grants. Demand for the benefits has not gone unnoticed by lawmakers. The House chairwoman of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee added her name to the list of officials saying Connecticut must increase funding for the program — or watch the $1,000 bonuses get sliced to a few hundred dollars, or less.
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Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly budgeted $30 million for a program which offered $1,000 grants to full -time workers and $500 for part-timers. By simple math, the $30 million program cannot deliver more than 30,000 grants of $1,000 each.
Interest in the new $1,000 pandemic bonuses that state officials dangled before essential, private-sector workers this spring is more than eight times the program’s maximum capacity to issue full gra...