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2010 Partner of the Year |
| EOC Helps Denver Senior Maintain Home |
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Holding on to her home has been a monumental achievement for 76-year-old Mona D., who manages to pay her monthly mortgage on the limited income she and her disabled daughter receive through social security and other assistance. Mona moved into her Denver house more than forty years ago, when her daughter was two weeks old. Her mother and grandmother lived on the ground floor and she lived upstairs with her five children, whom she raised single-handedly while working two jobs. “I worked at the phone company and as an elevator operator, waitress, home health care provider, babysitter and other odds and ends,” she said. Now that her other children are grown and responsible for their own families, she and her daughter rely on energy assistance and other services from EOC partner agencies Catholic Charities, Broadway Assistance Center and the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) to help pay the bills. Last fall, when Mona’s furnace started to malfunction and her heating bill was running into the hundreds of dollars, she was referred to LEAP’s crisis intervention program, which replaced her 30-year-old furnace at no cost. “I couldn’t begin to pay that much,” she said. “Getting that new furnace has helped us stay in our own home,” she said. “I pay a lot less for gas and lights now.” |
