Rep. Jillian Gilchrist, D-West Hartford, co-chair of the Human Services Committee noted the problem that occurs when someone receiving benefits makes too much income to continue receiving those benefits but still isn’t financially stable enough to ‘maintain their life.’

By Jamil Ragland, CTNewsJunkie.com 

It was a tale of two sections in the House of Representatives on Thursday, where a bill designed to address the drop off in state benefits as income rises found bipartisan support for its first section and stiff opposition for its second.

In section one, House Bill 5369, as amended, would instruct the Two-Generational Initiative to study strategies to mitigate the “benefits cliff.” The Two-Generational Initiative is a program run by the Office of Early Childhood to deal with economic instability.

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