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Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program Division 10 Service 415 Program 415 Chapters 05 - 65 North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services
A single-detached house which has an apartment will be treated as a duplex, since the house contains two separate and complete living areas.
If you have a situation which does not fit any of the situations described, contact the State Office for an interpretation.
If the household reports varying numbers of bedrooms for the same house from one season to the next, or the reported number of bedrooms is otherwise questionable, you have the right to question the count and/or to verify that the number of bedrooms reported is accurate. It may be that the household did not report all the bedrooms in previous years because they were previously used for some other purpose. In that case, it would be legitimate to allow the additional bedrooms. When trying to make a fair decision, the guideline should be to count the number of rooms structurally intended for bedrooms.