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Ombudsman, attorneys and residents push to restore COLA and raise nursing‑home personal needs allowance
Summary
Witnesses urged lawmakers to increase Connecticut's personal needs allowance (PNA) for nursing‑home residents and to restore an annual cost‑of‑living adjustment. Testimony noted Connecticut's $75 monthly PNA is lower than many states and that indexing it to Social Security cost‑of‑living adjustments would let residents keep more of federal COLA.
Mairead Painter, the state long‑term care ombudsman, told the Aging Committee she supports House Bill 6775 to adjust the personal needs allowance for long‑term care residents, calling Connecticut’s current PNA of $75 “not meeting the cost of living.” Painter cited other states’ levels and urged indexing so residents share in Social Security cost‑of‑living increases.
Painter suggested a model in which the PNA increases by an initial amount and then ties future adjustments to a portion of Social Security COLA. In response to…
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