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.
Jersey politicians have been debating controversial plans to scrap the Christmas Bonus and free TV licences for pensioners.
backbenchers are calling for the proposals to be reversed.
Deputy Geoff Southern says the Council of Ministers are targeting the island's most vulnerable.
He's calling for higher taxes for Jersey's richest.
The cuts to pensioner benefits have been put forward by Social Security Minister, Deputy Susie Pinel, as part of her department's move to save money.
Deput Pinel says that cost is likely to rise to £2.6 million by 2035, as more islanders reach pension age, an amount that would pay fifty nurses salaries.
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.