Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 49

BUSINESS OUTLOOK WEEK OF MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 Page 1 5 Near 2 Million Facing Winter Without Heat By Jeffrey Mills The study describes how low-income households go through a cycle of high energy bills, mounting debt to utilities, shutoff notices and termination, scraping funds together for a possible reconnection only to face even higher energy bills. Although 6.5 million households received assistance from the federal low-income home energy assistance program, the report said its benefits are inadequate to prevent disconnections of utility service. The average $212 benefit this year is less than 60 percent of the average debt of $368 to the utility when service is terminated, the report said. From 1981 through 1983, the price of natural gas increased by nearly 40 percent, but the average annual federal benefit remained essentially the same, the report noted. In 1983, 4.7 million people in more than 1.6 million households using natural gas had utility service disconnected, it said, and the number of households is expected to rise to more than 1.8 million this year.

Lin Boca Ralon Hollywood JKsorwiilo si (-vti-rstHirq Cor.n l.iinp,, KTrr fi.i-'i Gi'O'tiia Illinois: Ci ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Nearly 2 million Americans may be facing winter without heat as a result of recent utility shutoffs, the National Consumer Law Center says. In a recent report, the center said that if current trends hold, more than 1.8 million households using natural gas will lose their utility service, an increase of 9.7 percent over 1983 despite the economic recovery. "When energy costs absorb up to 50 percent of a low-income family's budget, is it any surprise that shutoffs continue to grow?" asked Carol Werner of the center. "Where is the safety net when families have to choose between heating and eating?" The report said poor people pay four times the percentage of income that average Americans spend for home energy, and that federal assistance to help pay their home heating bills is insufficient to avert widespread utility cutoffs. "The utility shutoff problem seems to defy the economic recovery," said the Law Center's CITYLINE RICHARD G.

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