A Lynn woman has come to the rescue of one of the 150,000 households that has exhausted its fuel assistance due to one of the coldest winters in recent memory.
After reading about Sydney Fuller-Jones and her 13-year-old twins in Sunday's Herald, Linda Peters offered to pay the roughly $200 the Mattapan family owes for the gas that heats their apartment.
"My heart went out to this family," Peters said yesterday. "I've struggled myself, but now I'm in a position to help, and I just want to do my part."
Since Fuller-Jones' husband died in 2011, she has been the sole breadwinner in the family. Of the $1,800 in pay the 52-year-old administrative assistant takes home each month, $1,400 goes toward rent, and $400 pays for her car and insurance. The rest — food, clothes, electricity — she pays for with credit.
Although she and her children were in no imminent danger of losing their heat because of the self-imposed moratorium Massachusetts utilities have on shutting off heat during the winter to customers who demonstrate financial hardship, the growing amount she owed had put her deeper and deeper into a debt she saw no way out of — until she came home Sunday night to find two messages from Peters on her answering machine.
"It's a blessing," Fuller-Jones said. "My children and I are just so appreciative. People like (Peters) don't come at a dime a dozen."
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