CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — TSA workers at Charleston International Airport are receiving financial help during the partial federal government shutdown through a loan program backed by the airport.
The airport has partnered with Beacon Community Bank to offer unsecured personal loans to qualified federal airport workers who have worked nearly 50 days without pay. The airport is covering the interest charges on the loans.
“They’re suffering and it’s really unfair. These aren’t people who make a lot of money to start with,” Elliott Summey, Charleston Regional Airport president and CEO, said…