Sault pensioner must pay city $89K for a retaining wall — or potentially lose her home

Sault pensioner must pay city $89K for a retaining wall — or potentially lose her home

'God forbid anyone else gets in this situation': Bainbridge Street homeowner believes municipality didn't have to put costs of construction project on her tax roll, but city says it was a 'situation that she chose for herself'

Reading time 2 minutesA pensioner from the district of Neuwied has to pay back nearly 10,000 euros of housing allowance after having received a pension retroactively due to full disability.The Koblenz Administrative Court ruled that the significant increase in income necessitates a recalculation of the entitlement to housing allowance.Reactive pension granting significantly increases income The man lived in a home together with his wife and thre…