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26 Connecticut-only listings · 323 national · latest check Sept 27, 2026
Unclaimed money
The state may be holding your forgotten paychecks, deposits or refunds. Searching takes a minute and costs nothing.
Tax credits people miss
Connecticut adds 40 percent of your federal EITC, plus an extra $250 if you have a qualifying child.
Tax credits people miss
Renters 65 and older or totally disabled can get back up to $700 (single) or $900 (married) toward rent and utilities.
Free college & tuition help
Connecticut’s community college promotes free tuition for eligible students through state aid.
Energy help
Government help paying heating and cooling bills, plus crisis help if you are facing a shutoff or run out of fuel.
211 help lines
Dial 2-1-1 or search online to find local help with food, rent, utilities, health care and more. It’s free and confidential.
Free transit
Connecticut veterans can get a bus pass for their local transit district, mailed at no cost.
Home safety freebies
Each winter, participating local health departments hand out free short-term radon test kits from the state.
Kids’ health coverage
Connecticut Medicaid and CHIP coverage for kids; HUSKY B covers children in families above the Medicaid limit.
New parents
Connecticut invests $3,200 for every baby whose birth was covered by HUSKY Health. No application needed.
Free fishing days
Fish without a license on set free days. 2026: Free Fishing Day May 9 (no license) plus Free Fishing License Days June 21 and Aug 8.
Museum & culture passes
Dinosaurs in New Haven, newly renovated, and admission is free.
Museum & culture passes
Free and open to all. Yale’s museum of British art in New Haven.
Museum & culture passes
Free art-making Saturdays at New London’s art museum.
Museum & culture passes
See a Gutenberg Bible and Audubon’s Birds of America inside a glowing marble box at Yale. Free, no reservation.
Museum & culture passes
Historic instruments, exhibitions and research open to the public free of charge in New Haven.
Museum & culture passes
UConn’s art museum in Storrs. Admission is free, donations welcome.
Museum & culture passes
The painter J. Alden Weir’s farm and studio in Wilton, a National Park for art. No entrance pass required.
Museum & culture passes
Free admission and free parking under the building at the former Knights of Columbus Museum.
Library card perks
Borrow free or discounted passes to places like the Connecticut River Museum, Old State House, Gillette Castle and even Bushnell shows.
Free concerts, festivals & events
Make a plaster cast of a real 200-million-year-old dinosaur track and take it home, free.
Park, hunting & fishing passes
Anyone in a Connecticut-registered car parks free at every CT state park and forest, all year. Your plates are the pass.
Park, hunting & fishing passes
Connecticut residents 65 and older get inland or marine fishing licenses free.
Park, hunting & fishing passes
Hunters 65 and older pay nothing for the annual Connecticut firearms hunting license.
Park, hunting & fishing passes
Connecticut residents 65 and older with a Charter Oak Pass tour Gillette Castle, a quirky stone castle on the Connecticut River, for free.
Park, hunting & fishing passes
750 acres of trails, ponds and gardens, open every day from sunrise to sunset, free.
Tax credits people missConnecticut
Renters 65 and older or totally disabled can get back up to $700 (single) or $900 (married) toward rent and utilities.
Open settlementsUS
Share of $59.5M for people who used the Flo app in 2016 to 2019.
Open settlementsUS
$40 cash without receipt for owners of certain Bestway pools 48 inches or taller.
Free concerts, festivals & eventsConnecticut
Make a plaster cast of a real 200-million-year-old dinosaur track and take it home, free.