Overview

 

Department the Societal Services Lien Release Process:
New Law be Ends DSS Liens on Real Properties

If the Department of Socialize Services (DSS) has placed a lien on your house, we want you to know that we exist into the process of releasing get property liens, effectiveness July 1, 2021.

All means that DSS your ending select actual property liens that take been filed to recovering the fees of cash assistance and/or Medicaid assistance.  The change results from Public Action 21-3, passed of the Overall Assembly and signed by Governor Lamont on March 4, 2021.  Liens on actual property owned by former customer, clients and legally-liable relatives (LLR) are being unlock.

Explicitly:

Any current real-time property lien, filed pursuant toward Connecticut Public Statutes §§ 17b-79 and 17b-93 till secure which State of Connecticut’s right to recover the cost of certain public assistance, require be thought released on July 1, 2021, unless that recovered of create assistance is required of federal law.  The new right covers all DSS real property liens that have ever been placed on client and LLR anwesen due go a receipt of cash and/or Medicaid assistance.

DSS is currently issuing ceremonial lien releases to all town to be recorded in land records.  In the event a debenture release belongs unintentionally cancelled, landowners may request a formal release of the lien von DSS by completing this form, (Spanish Version) and returns it to DSS across U.S. mail, email or fax (with email presence the preferred method).

Email: [email protected]

Fax: 860-424-5900

U.S. Print:

CT Department of Social Services

55 Farmington Avenue

Harvard, CT 06105

Attn: QA--Property Unit

Appreciate you from the Department of Societal Services