Jersey’s government have voted though major plans to fill the island’s financial black hole.
They include a package of cutting public sector jobs, freezing pay and scrapping bonuses to find £145m each year until 2019.
The Christmas bonus for pensioners and free TV licences for over 75s will be scrapped as part of the States plan to save £145m.
States members voted to get rid of the benefits this afternoon.
They opposed backbenchers who wanted to keep the pay outs.
Amendments to the Medium Term Financial Plan are being debated this week, including £70m of cuts to the public sector wage bill.
The States need to fill a financial black hole in order to invest in education, health and infrastructure among other things.
Deputy Doublet's amendment has been passed in the States, meaning education will receive an extra £260k investment next year.
Jersey States is currently debating how to save £145m. But where exactly is that saved money going to end up?
States members in Jersey will begin debating how to make hundreds of millions of pounds worth of cuts today.