Jerry Davich

Metro columnist

Timothy Nilsson mailed me a nine-page, 3,700-word letter to express his disgust and disappointment — in exhaustive detail — regarding his retirement pension.

“My story is a long and painful one,” Nilsson wrote. “This is not the way I envisioned retirement.”

The 66-year-old former construction worker retired in 2011 from the former Inland Steel plant in East Chicago after a 30-plus-year career. He was awarded Social Security Disability under his pension agreement.

“I was just 19 when I hired in,” Nilsson said. “I had the body of a 90-year-old man when I retired at 52. Construction work will do that to you.”

He's disgruntled about multiple facets of his life as a former mill worker. Nilsson blames the steel company for the lack of cost-of-living adjustments

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