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    Weekly DSS Application Activity Before and During COVID-19 Emergency

    Metadata Updated: September 14, 2025

    Paper and online applications submitted directly to the Department of Social Services by week since the week of 2/3/2020. Does not include MAGI Medicaid or CHIP applications. Includes:

    Weekly applications received: All programs Weekly applications received: Cash assistance
    Weekly applications received: Non-MAGI medical assistance
    Weekly applications received: SNAP
    Daily average applications received: All programs Daily average applications received: Cash assistance Daily average applications received: Non-MAGI medical assistance Daily average applications received: SNAP Percentage of weekly applications: Cash assistance Percentage of weekly applications: Non-MAGI medical assistance Percentage of weekly applications: SNAP Weekly Percent Change Compared to Average Week before Mar 16 (baseline): All programs Weekly Percent Change Compared to Average Week before Mar 16 (baseline): Cash assistance Weekly Percent Change Compared to Average Week before Mar 16 (baseline): Medical assistance Weekly Percent Change Compared to Average Week before Mar 16 (baseline): SNAP

    Data updated weekly.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 14, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Connecticut Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 14, 2025
    Publisher data.ct.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ct.gov/api/views/ymej-83fh
    Data First Published 2020-06-12
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-12
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ct.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id a5ed474f-1c6e-482b-8109-b5b9d191483b
    Harvest Source Id 36c82f29-4f54-495e-a878-2c07320bf10c
    Harvest Source Title Connecticut Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.ct.gov/d/ymej-83fh
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c29ef1fccdb6e2177a841a8a0fa39450c46cac5a78ba0d54a5ec50b9fbd0a4b4
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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