Within minutes of Air Force veteran Randolph McGee’s story running on WCPO’s weekly Homefront segment, emails and calls came into anchor Craig McKee.
While the Cincinnati VA office worked to connect McGee with financial relief from the Hamilton County Veterans Service Commission, a WCPO viewer told Craig she wanted to know how much it would take to cover McGee’s rent.
After several days, it was clear the VSC was willing to cover one month of the newly raised rent of $650 for McGee’s apartment. This meant a balance of $1,475 as McGee prepared to face a judge in his eviction case.
McGee is like thousands of other veterans across the country including some here in the Tri-State who had their disability payments cut by the VA. For McGee, it was a non-service-connected benefit, and it was stopped due to the fact he was also receiving social security — a double payment McGee wasn’t aware he couldn’t receive.
That’s why he reached out to WCPO Anchor Craig McKee for a solution.
After two months of not receiving the non-service-connected disability payment he once relied on, his delinquent rent was becoming an issue.