# Connecticut — Security deposit return deadlines by US state — the statutory clock a landlord has to return a tenant's deposit, quoted from the state statute

For Connecticut, return deadline is twenty-one days; deadline in days is 21; what starts the clock is after termination of a tenancy or fifteen days after receiving written notification of such tenant's forwarding address, whichever is later; statute is Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-21(d)(2), recorded from its source on 2026-08-26.

- **State:** Connecticut _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Return deadline:** twenty-one days _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Deadline in days:** 21 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **What starts the clock:** after termination of a tenancy or fifteen days after receiving written notification of such tenant's forwarding address, whichever is later _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-21(d)(2) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> Not later than twenty-one days after termination of a tenancy or fifteen days after receiving written notification of such tenant's forwarding address, whichever is later, each landlord other than a rent receiver shall deliver to the tenant or former tenant at such forwarding address either (A) the full amount of the security deposit paid by such tenant plus accrued interest, or (B) the balance of such security deposit and accrued interest after deduction for any damages suffered by such landlord

## Source

- https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_831.htm

Last verified: 2026-08-26. Review by: 2027-08-26.
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