Connecticut Military Relief Fund

The Connecticut Military Relief Fund makes grants of up to five thousand dollars to service members and their families who are experiencing financial hardship arising out of military service. It is a grant, not a loan, and there is nothing to repay. The hardship has to connect to the service. The ordinary case is a household whose income fell when a member mobilized, or one carrying costs that the deployment created. A hardship unrelated to military service belongs to a different program, and the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund in this catalog is the wider-reaching of the two for a veteran no longer serving. The fund is administered by the Connecticut Military Department rather than by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which matters for where the application goes and who answers questions about it. No disability rating is part of the test, so a rating filter never hides this entry. Treat the five thousand dollar figure as a ceiling rather than an entitlement, and confirm the current application route and the documentation the department wants before filing. Relief funds of this kind change their forms and their evidence requirements more often than statutes change.