
Help Nik (and cats) with winter heating costs
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Hi, I'm Nik, or Red, or Wylde, or any number of names or online handles you may or may not have met me under. Recently I moved to West Virginia to get away from Portland, Oregon's outrageous cost of living and the stress of living in a city on my autistic, traumatized nervous system. For the most part, that's been a good thing. Rent's been significantly cheaper and I'm in a nice quiet area without gunshots going off at all hours of the day and night.
Unfortunately, my apartment isn't weatherized well at all, winter's been extremely cold, and all I have is baseboard heating.
The result is a $350 electric bill that, as a disabled autistic person on a fixed income of ~$1600 a month who is already paying nearly half of that to rent, has to pay other utilities as well AND still afford to somehow feed both myself and my cats while paying off the loans I took out in order to move down here in the first place, I legitimately can't pay.
I've set my goal at $400 rather than the straight $350 because that extra $50 would help me cover my water bill as well. Please, any and all help would be appreciated, and hopefully with the weather starting to warm up soon I won't have as much difficulty with this in the future.
Note: Yes, I've already attempted to work with my power company, but I'm already on a pay-over-time plan for one of my other bills that was $300+ (It was either December or January, I genuinely can't remember right at this moment), and I don't qualify for their other in-company assistance programs. I've already used my low-income assistance money to help pay down one of my electric bills this winter to a somewhat more reasonable amount, so that option is also exhausted. Seriously, any aid you can provide would be so, so helpful. Thank you.
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Nik Alexander
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Wheeling, WV