The state’s social-services department is one of its first agency’s to take a major first step to entering the digital age, launching an online site where clients can check the status of their food stamps and health benefits and get other vital info, authorities say.
The state Department of Social Services (DSS) and the governor’s office Monday jointly announced the agency’s new online portal to serve its 750,000 clients.
The portal is at www.connect.ct.gov.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said it marks the first step of the department’s wide-ranging “ConneCT” modernization initiative.
Over the next year, DSS is preparing to launch additional “ConneCT” features, including a statewide, toll-free interactive voice-response phone system for clients; streamlined document imaging and management; modernized service centers; and online application processing, officials said.
