When Clermont County resident Paul Napier received a $700 electric bill this summer, he thought he might lose everything.
“No groceries, no car. I wouldn’t be able to pay my lot rent on my mobile home,” Napier, who is on Social Security, said. “[The] stressful situation that I’m already in — and it would have just been 10 times worse.”
Napier lost his wife earlier this year. And in addition to grieving her, he had to figure out how to pay the same bills without her Social Security benefits…