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SUMMARY <br />The Energy Assistance Program is a federally funded program <br />designed to help !ow and moderate income households meet the <br />rising home heating costs. During the 1983-04 Program Year, <br />a total ofl,652 househol,: were served in the Nest Hennepin <br />area. This was an increase from 1,424 the previous year for <br />a 15% growth in the program. Of 0.2 households served, 52% <br />had annual incomts of less than $ 5,000 snd 58.5% wire owner <br />occupied. Natural gas and eii ccistituted the primary <br />heating snuices providing heating energy to 92.5'. of the <br />households. <br />Again, as in previous years, a key ingredient in the pre- <br />vision of this program to the Nest Hennepin community was <br />the 25 volunteers who contributed 900 hours of work. Their <br />work this year was primarily to inrerview applicants and <br />fill out applications. Without this asat,r)ance we would <br />not have been •bl,: to operate the number of appltcaciou <br />sites we did, nor would we have been as successful. <br />During the year we did operate as a work site for the <br />Minnesota Emergency Economic Development Act (HEED). This <br />enabled us to employ 9 additional individuals who worked <br />for us full time for from ) to 6 months. This enabled us <br />to process the applications much faster, devote more time <br />to advocate for cl,ents when problems arose, and to provide <br />more home visits to those who writ unable to get to the <br />application sites. <br />