NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The Lawyers Council of Nakhon Ratchasima is offering legal assistance to elderly people ordered to refund an age allowance they had been receiving for many years.
Thirteen pensioners in tambon Cho Ho of Muang district have been told by Tambon Cho Ho Municipality they must return all the money they were paid over the last 10 years or more.
The Finance Ministry’s comptroller general’s department late last year discovered they were ineligible for the allowance because they received a separate monthly pension, mostly because of the death a husband in the service of the state.
This led to Tambon Cho Ho Municipality sending them letters telling them to return the money.
One of them, Samrit Phusawang, 83, had…
