Connecticut Association for Community Action
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CAFCA Connections – April 7, 2021
CT Community Action Agencies Still Offering Free Tax Preparation Assistance
Connecticut’s Community Action Agencies (CAAs) are providing free tax preparation services to eligible individuals and families across the state through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. VITA is available for residents with low to moderate incomes, persons with disabilities, and limited English-speaking taxpayers who need assistance preparing and filing their tax returns. Last year, over 10,000 people filed their tax returns at CAAs.
Community Action Highlights
- Rybczyk fills shoes of CEO at New Opportunities, Inc. (Mike Patrick, Republican American, 4/6/21)
- CRT offers tips for personal financial recovery in a post-COVID world
- Congresswoman DeLauro, Lt. Governor Bysiewicz visit TEAM's Early Childhood site (press conference), Eyewitness News 3 (4/6/21)
- Food giveaways helped Groton mother keep family fed during COVID-19 pandemic (Sten Spinella, The Day, 4/3/21)
- After spending 42 years helping those less fortunate, New Opportunities CEO retires (Mike Patrick, Republican American, 3/30/21)
- Over the past year of the pandemic, Travelers donated more than 32,000 hot meals to CRT clients (Fox 61)
- Access Launches “Customer Choice” Food Pantry Shopping (Elisha Sherman, Access, 3/26/21)
News Items of Interest
- The pandemic’s effect on the housing market helped some — but others are left behind (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas And Kasturi Pananjady, CT Mirror, 4/5/21)
- Connecticut is divided into largely white suburbs and cities where more people of color live. Here’s how advocates want to rewrite local zoning rules to change that (Eliza Fawcett, Hartford Courant, 3/31/21)
- Affordable housing bills move out of committee, but not without changes (Jaqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror, 3/31/21)
- With Demand For Community Health Workers Rising, So Does Need For Sustainable Funding (Cara Rosner, CT Health i-Team, 3/29/21)
- Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID (Jacqueline Rabe Thomas And Kasturi Pananjady, CT Mirror, 3/29/21)
- A new Connecticut child tax credit could save families up to $1,800 a year. Here’s who would be eligible and how it would work (Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3/24/21)
- CT’s minimum wage hike has many poor families heading toward a ‘benefits cliff’ (Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror, 3/12/21
Community Events
- CRT's 30th Annual Arts Show
National & Regional Events
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