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COVID-19 Resources

The ongoing public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Americans' lives upside down. Millions have fallen ill, and families have experienced the devastating loss of losing a loved one. Many lost their jobs or had their hours cut back making it difficult to put food on the table. School children had their learning interrupted in addition to suffering from the social and mental health impact of remote learning. Small businesses have closed or lost significant revenues.

I have worked hard in Washington along with my colleagues to help Americans during the pandemic by providing funding to put shots in arms, money in people's pockets, and children safely back in school. 

Please sign up for my newsletter here, if you would like to get email updates on how I am working in Washington to help my constituents during the pandemic. As always, my office stands ready to assist. Please call my Hartford office at 860-278-8888 or send us an email here.  

For the latest information on COVID-19 from the Center for Disease Control, please visit their website here 

For the latest on COVID-19 from the State of Connecticut, please visit their website here 

Connecticut's 2-1-1 COVID info hotline is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. The hotline is for general coronavirus questions (such as utility assistance, food, housing, childcare, after school programs, elder care, crisis intervention, experiencing homelessness). 

American Rescue Plan: 

To help the nation recover from the pandemic and get us on the road to economic recovery, Congressman Larson helped author and pass the American Rescue Plan. This is the largest relief bill in our country’s history. Here are just some of the American Rescue Plan provisions that came right to Connecticut: 

  • Stimulus Checks – Provided federal payments of $1,400 to individuals earning $75,000 or less to over one and a half million Connecticut residents. 

  • Affordable Healthcare – More than 33,000 households in Connecticut saved over $4.5 million through American Rescue Plan tax credits on the Access Health CT marketplace for health insurance. In the First Congressional District, there was an average annual savings of $1,174 per household.   

  • Tax Cuts for Families - Expanded the Child Tax Credit, providing monthly payments up to $3,600 a child benefiting 77% of children in CT-01 and lifting 7,800 children out of poverty.  

  • Rental Assistance – Created a new federal program paying up to $10,000 in rental assistance to help renters and landlords as well as $125 million to assist homeowners with their mortgages.  

  • Unemployment Benefits - Extended federal unemployment benefit supplemental payments of $300 per week on top of standard state benefit levels to help those who lost their jobs due to the pandemic and made self-employed and gig workers eligible for the first time. 

  • Small Business Relief – Brought home to Connecticut federal funds to help small businesses and restaurants weather the pandemic in the amount of $10 billion in Paycheck Protection Program payments, more than $125 million in Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program grants, and $301 million in Restaurant Revitalization Fund grant payments.    

  • Funding for Schools and Municipalities – In the First Congressional District alone, the Rescue Plan provided $567 million in federal funding directly to the towns to fund critical services such as fire and police and schools so children could return to school safely.