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'The impact of this is going to be catastrophic on families like mine on fixed income. Retirees are going to be put out of house and home. They’re not going to be able to afford a car, food or medicine.'

Brendan Milewski, 34, a Detroit firefighter
who was seriously injured in an arson
in 2010 and said he received a pension
of $2,800 a month from the city, response
to a court ruling Tuesday that public
employee pensions were not protected
in a federal Chapter 9 bankruptcy, even
though the Michigan Constitution
expressly protects them