https://portside.org/2013-12-04/out-house-and-home

'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