A homeowner left financially ruined from millions of dollars worth of building defects in her apartment block is disappointed that the government has rejected her plea for early access to her superannuation.
Tamara Railton-Stewart, 48, believes she has now exhausted most of her options to scrape her way out of a lifetime of debt.
The mum-of-one is among a number of victims involved in the collapse of melbourne building company Shangri-La Construction, which went into liquidation in March this year.
There were 10 residential apartment blocks across Melbourne, including the one where Ms Railton-Stewart resides, that were in various stages of taking legal action over defective building work when the company went under.
One single claim for a block of units was for $10 million worth of damages, including cladding problems and water leaks, at a different location.
Although Ms Railton-Stewart and the nine other residents in her block received a $2 million insurance payout that covered some of the defect costs, she is still $39,000 behind in payments to strata, for money that had to be taken out to fix the apartment block’s problems over the past decade.
“I think people in my position should have access to their super,” she…
