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Speaker 1: Karosee Morning shows all about supporting the American veterans at least.
Speaker 1: That's my pet cause and I'll do anything I can
Speaker 1: do to do that, and folks doing it every single day,
Speaker 1: supporting the American veterans. Claremont County Veteran Services Welcome back
Speaker 1: into the fifty five Cassey Morning shoot. It's always a
Speaker 1: pleasure to have Steve belzo in, the executive director of
Speaker 1: the Claremont County Veteran Service Commission.
Speaker 2: Good to see you, Steve, Brian. Always a pleasure to
Speaker 2: see you in the morning.
Speaker 1: And always thank you for what you're doing. You're one
Speaker 1: of the more well oiled Veteran services offices out there.
Speaker 1: Your services are outstanding. I've never heard anybody complain about it.
Speaker 1: You facilitate the veterans getting their VA benefits. You help
Speaker 1: and today we're talking about financial assistance. You have a
Speaker 1: financial assistance program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. And what's unique about that, Brian, is
Speaker 2: every county in Ohio has this program. The Ohio Advised
Speaker 2: Code is what sets us into motion for every Veterans
Speaker 2: Service office in every county in Ohio. As Ohioans, we
Speaker 2: are blessed by what our government has put in place
Speaker 2: for us to sustain our veterans of our country. It's
Speaker 2: really a great program. Ergency Financial Assistance is just that,
Speaker 2: it's emergency situations arise, right, Yeah, and it's just just
Speaker 2: weekly there are veterans coming in with you got to
Speaker 2: be kidding me, right, Life happens. We don't have a
Speaker 2: perfect life, right because there's thorns out there. There's situations
Speaker 2: that happen.
Speaker 1: You like when you get your property tax increase of
Speaker 1: thirty percent. Sorry, I had to go there. I couldn't
Speaker 1: let it go.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll let that one go. I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Don't take de bait, you know. But but I guess
Speaker 1: the broader point is, you know, it happens from time
Speaker 1: to time, you know, unanticipated expenses, Lightning strikes your house,
Speaker 1: you don't have the money, fight whatever.
Speaker 2: Right, tree came down to the house into the Hurricane
Speaker 2: Wars insurance. Yeah, screws fall absolutely. Yeah. So the Emergency
Speaker 2: Financial Program is really unique in our ability to help
Speaker 2: veterans in their their current situation. But it's not one
Speaker 2: we have to define veterans, right, So the VA cees
Speaker 2: veteran different than the American public sees veteran. And this
Speaker 2: program is supported the same way by the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2: So if I wore the sacred cloth of our country,
Speaker 2: as we often refer to our military uniforms, as a
Speaker 2: reservist or a guardsman and never activated under Title ten
Speaker 2: by the United States Code by the President to support.
Speaker 2: You're not seen by the VA or the Ohio Revice
Speaker 2: Code as a veteran for support. Okay. So every other
Speaker 2: military member, it's either active duty or former active duty,
Speaker 2: or as a reservist or guardsman, you're activated under Title
Speaker 2: ten to support something on behalf of this country, okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: So that in a sense kind of confines what is
Speaker 2: a veteran. So you're going to support your veteran by
Speaker 2: your DD two fourteen, which is an active duty release
Speaker 2: of service or an active duty military ID card. Okay,
Speaker 2: and most active duty coming back. We have what one
Speaker 2: base here in Ohio, maybe two, So there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of active duty around us. But what there are
Speaker 2: is active duty members home on leave. And what if
Speaker 2: that active duty member was in a horrible accident right
Speaker 2: right stuck in the hospital. Yeah they have healthcare, Yes
Speaker 2: they have this, but then there's needs that come in
Speaker 2: beyond that. How do I help take care of the children.
Speaker 2: I'm a dad, whatever's going.
Speaker 1: On, right, you're the sole breadwinner of the family if
Speaker 1: you're laid up in the hospital. PA maybe covering that component,
Speaker 1: but nobody's replaced the salary.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, if their ACTI duty, they're going to
Speaker 2: get their salary regardless, and they're going to be on
Speaker 2: some emergency leave status. But yet there's still extenuating impact
Speaker 2: from something like that of putting the car back together,
Speaker 2: right that the military is not going to put his
Speaker 2: car back together, so they could come and see us
Speaker 2: and we would help get their car back on the road. Right,
Speaker 2: So people repairs to what have you. So it does
Speaker 2: have a limited scope, but as far those occasions when
Speaker 2: something just out of nowhere blows up your life in
Speaker 2: a sense that we can help you get back up
Speaker 2: on life. All right.
Speaker 1: Well, and there are criteria that define an emergency to
Speaker 1: be eligible for this the program. What are the criteria specifically,
Speaker 1: So we're talking about emergencies. Emergency is something that rose unexpectedly.
Speaker 1: My Duke bill did not come unexpected, nor did the
Speaker 1: property tax bill. Negating my point earlier.
Speaker 2: Maybe the thirty percent came on, but it was long
Speaker 2: enough for amo who it was coming, right, So it's
Speaker 2: it's it's something that arose unexpected, such as your accident,
Speaker 2: such as the neighbor cutting down a tree and it
Speaker 2: fell on us. But okay, it's it's unexpected, right, It's
Speaker 2: not something I see longcoming. It created, in a sense,
Speaker 2: an immediate need for financial assistance. So how to validate
Speaker 2: that while we require you to bring in two months
Speaker 2: of your bank statements so we can show that it
Speaker 2: was an immediate financial need, not that you had twenty
Speaker 2: K in the bank and I need you to pay
Speaker 2: off my three thousand dollars bill over here. Well, no,
Speaker 2: you have plenty that you have saved up and you've
Speaker 2: managed yourself.
Speaker 1: So the guards are in place for and I hate
Speaker 1: to even think about someone who served our country in
Speaker 1: uniform gaming the system. But bad eggs exist everywhere. In
Speaker 1: spite of the fact that Bob McDonald thought it was
Speaker 1: it was profound point that he went to West Point,
Speaker 1: there are some West Point people that are ended up
Speaker 1: in Levenworth. So you know there are of every branch
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why Levenworth is so large. However, sometimes
Speaker 2: you can take Johnny out of the trailer part, but
Speaker 2: you can't take park out of jail. Right, there's you
Speaker 2: got the garden for the tax there. He's going, right, right, Well,
Speaker 2: that's just that this is taxpayers money, it's not mine.
Speaker 2: So we judiciously look at this program, and the Americans
Speaker 2: of Ohio say, we want to support veterans. I want
Speaker 2: to ensure that we are stewards of the county government's
Speaker 2: money that is handed to me from taxpayers, that we
Speaker 2: are uplifting veterans and we are not just offering a handout.
Speaker 1: That's why I like you, Steve, because I imagine there is
Speaker 1: a you know, Veterans Services Commission out there in some
Speaker 1: other county elsewhere that wouldn't have that concern on behalf
Speaker 1: of the American taxpayer probably. So it's just like I
Speaker 1: can see them just ignoring the criteria for eligibility and
Speaker 1: just pushing it through and saying, fine, you're eligible.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, I've got to get back behind my wallet.
Speaker 2: I pay taxes in Claremont County, and how would I
Speaker 2: want my money spent? And when I can look at
Speaker 2: it from those shoes, it just becomes a different state,
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
Speaker 1: If we only had more people in government who viewed
Speaker 1: it through that lens, what the world would be such
Speaker 1: a better place.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be trillions ticking every.
Speaker 1: Second, would not it would all right? So DD two
Speaker 1: to fourteen is a prerequisite for this.
Speaker 2: And so then on top of that, you have to
Speaker 2: have been a resident of Claremont County for ninety days.
Speaker 2: You must be employed or actively looking for employment. So
Speaker 2: coming in, I've been unemployed for the past two years
Speaker 2: and I'm on welfare, I'm really not looking for anything. Well,
Speaker 2: then everything is an emergency financial for you because you're
Speaker 2: not doing anything to uplift yourself and just the basic
Speaker 2: needs of life.
Speaker 1: Well, and that addresses you're unexpected. If you have no income,
Speaker 1: every expense that lands on your plate's going to be unexpected.
Speaker 1: That's right in a way, right right, all right? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you're viewing that like back in the old
Speaker 1: days of domestic relations court. You know, if you had
Speaker 1: a deadbeat father who wasn't paying his his order to
Speaker 1: support payments, you forced him to bring in job applications
Speaker 1: that he had submitted, right, you make them look for
Speaker 1: a job.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's right, all right? So, and then you
Speaker 2: know there's also times where uplifting those individuals, such as
Speaker 2: what about the spouse of the World War two veteran
Speaker 2: who's still here with us, but the veterans passed on.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you there was a There are some
Speaker 2: great networking partners of ours, and I'll hold their names
Speaker 2: tight so everybody's not yelling at them. Hey fix my two.
Speaker 2: But there was an eighty five year old early Vietnam
Speaker 2: Korean War period spouse husband had passed. He was a veteran.
Speaker 2: Her ac unit went down in the middle of July
Speaker 2: last year, July second, she calls us. I need help.
Speaker 2: I'm getting I have three quotes to replace my HVAC system,
Speaker 2: upwards of about fifteen thousand dollars. I'm on Social Security,
Speaker 2: my veteran husband is passed, and that's all of my income.
Speaker 2: So I called this friend of ours front of the office.
Speaker 2: He sent one of his technicians out there on July third,
Speaker 2: troubleshot the HVAC system. I'm Brian. On July fourth, I
Speaker 2: get dusched up.
Speaker 1: On Steve's experiencing an allergy outright, I'll get you some
Speaker 1: best yeah.
Speaker 2: On July fourth, editor he took his daughter out to
Speaker 2: fix this widow's HVAC. It needed one pressurized line to
Speaker 2: be soidered pressurized it, and on July fourth, this eighty
Speaker 2: five year old veteran spouse on oxygen and every other
Speaker 2: kind of medication at that age hatter AC restored at
Speaker 2: zero cost instead of an old, brand new HVAC system
Speaker 2: to be placed in August.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, man. That's what this program does, right, that's
Speaker 1: what this program does, all right? Well, where can veterans
Speaker 1: find this application for him to the extent they're experiencing
Speaker 1: this financial emergency.
Speaker 2: You know what? They can find it at our office
Speaker 2: at seventy six South Riverside Drive in Batavia. It's also
Speaker 2: called the Heritage Building for Claremont County residents. It's the
Speaker 2: same place where you go for early voting. We are
Speaker 2: on the third floor. Or you can find it online
Speaker 2: at Claremont County Veterans dot com.
Speaker 1: Laima County Veterans dot Com. Right there on the front page,
Speaker 1: you can see it turned to us for financial assistance
Speaker 1: and can get financial assystems by clicking on the link there.
Speaker 1: What's the turnaround time before we part company? Here, Steve Belzo,
Speaker 1: you know that's great.
Speaker 2: It used to be we had up until ten days
Speaker 2: because the service officers would see it I've recently hired
Speaker 2: an emergency financial advisor investigator and some days it can
Speaker 2: be a same day turnaround if you have all your documents.
Speaker 1: Clima County Veterans Services oiled machine. There are other ones
Speaker 1: that could learn from you. You know, this should be
Speaker 1: an outreach program, the ones that are the Veterans Services
Speaker 1: and other counties that are struggling to get a to
Speaker 1: get the the ship righted, call Steve Belzoh, he'll steer
Speaker 1: you in the right direction again Claremont County Veterans dot Com. Steve,
Speaker 1: thanks again for all that you're doing for our veterans.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your efforts and you're looking out for the
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollar at the same time.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and thanks for your partnership.
Speaker 1: You're good man. I'm happy to be here to be
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