Show today and beyond for event custom post type

Hi
Can anybody tell me where I’m going wrong with the following code. It performs a meta_query on the event-date field to show only today’s and future events, but it’s returning nothing.

<?php
$today = date( "Ymd" );
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'event',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'meta_key' => 'wpcf-event-date',
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'order' => 'ASC',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'wpcf-event-date',
'value' => $today,
'compare' => '>=',
'type' => 'NUMERIC'
)
)
); 

$postslist = get_posts($args);
foreach ($postslist as $post) :
setup_postdata($post); ?>

// My output goes here

<?php endforeach; ?>

The “compare” doesn’t seem to fire for “greater than or equal” to today’s date. The date in WP is stored in the same format (Ymd) – I’ve tried “DATE” for the “type” attribute but that doesn’t work either.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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