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JUL 22, 2025
By 2035, more than 82 million people are projected to rely on Social Security roughly 13 million more than today
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JUL 9, 2025
AARP Connecticut applauds the final decision by the Connecticut Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) to reject United Illuminating Company’s supplemental rate increase request. An approved increase would have significantly raised the cost of electricity for Connecticut ratepayers, who already pay the highest retail electricity price in the continental United States.
JUL 7, 2025
AARP Connecticut encourages potentially impacted ratepayers to voice their position on the rate increase request.
The following guest post was submitted by Mary Kate Dougherty, Program Manager, Travelers Aid--Bradley International Airport.
AARP Connecticut – advocates for age 50+ Connecticut residents and their families – works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to support legislation and issues that make our state a great place to live for people of all ages.
The annual program aims to make communities in Connecticut more livable for people of all ages
Public Hearing in February Offers Ratepayers Opportunity to Provide Testimony
AARP Connecticut – the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization in the state with nearly 600,000 members – announces the appointment of Stratford resident John Wilson as its new Volunteer State President.
AARP volunteers are contacting Connecticut voters to help ensure they’re aware of recent changes to election laws, including moving up the presidential primary date from the last Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday. Voters can also now cast ballots early in person.
AARP Connecticut submitted to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) a petition that was signed by nearly 1,500 Connecticut residents opposing The Connecticut Water Company’s request to implement a rate increase that will raise the cost of water for Connecticut ratepayers by $21.4 million (18.1%) or up to $232 per year, depending on how much water a customer uses.
With the falling temperatures and colder winter months ahead, AARP Connecticut is raising awareness among Eversource Energy and United Illuminating consumers of changes to standard service generation rates that become effective January 1, 2024 through June 30, 2024.
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
Public Hearings in November and December Offer Ratepayers Opportunity to Provide Testimony
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