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Last updated on April 30, 2018 by Matthew G. Kamine. (Please consider sending us a contribution at our office address specifically to help cover the administrative costs of updating this database – click here)
Please note that the information given here is intended as a general guideline. Please look into the specifics in your state to determine definitely if you qualify for one of the benefits listed here. Your living organ donor coordinator may be a good resource for such information.
Most benefits are available in the state where you live, but also check for potential benefits in the state where you are donating if you are donating outside the state where you live.
Please discuss with your organ recipient options that may be available through his or her insurance. Some private insurance companies offer transplant recipients travel and lodging benefits but do not care if recipients use that benefit themselves, or for a companion caregiver, or a donor.
There is one Federal program that provides money for travel and subsistence living for donors whose recipients can demonstrate need, please go to http://www.
All Federal Employees are eligible to take up to 30 days a year of paid leave for donating organs or seven days of paid leave for donating bone marrow. 5 U.S.C. § 6327.
Connecticut state employees are entitled to up to 24 weeks of non-paid medical leave (which can be used for bone marrow or organ donation) within any two-year period. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-248a. Private sector employees must be provided up to 16 weeks of non-paid medical leave within a two-year period which can also be used for living donation. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51ll. If you work for a local government, please ask your human resources official if a similar provision has been adopted at your level of government.
Connecticut has no tax deductions or tax credits for donation related expenses.
Please see https://www.cga.ct.gov/lco/statutes-index.asp for statutory updates. For possible legislation under consideration, see http://www.cga.ct.gov/. For executive orders, see http://portal.ct.gov/governor/executive-Orders/.
If you work for a private company, check with your employer about the possibility of employer sponsored donation related paid leave.
Check with the living organ donor coordinator and/or transplant social worker at the transplant center where you plan to donate for more information about local organizations that support living donors.
Private non-government groups
(Many of these groups are set up to help transplant recipients but will also help organ donors)
The Yale-New Haven Hospital provides information about kidney and liver donations in particular.
The Donate Life Connecticut provides information about the benefits of organ donation and inspiring stories from organ donor recipients.
The “Other Living Donor Support Organizations” button on the right hand side of our home page lists some national organizations that may be of assistance.