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A small victory this week for teachers, firefighters, and policemen.

A Senate committee charged with making changes to the state pension plan passed less severe cuts than Governor Rick Scott is calling for. Their plan calls for no contributions for state workers making less than 40-thousand, and less than five percent for the rest. Scott’s calls for five percent across the board. Matt Puckett with the Florida Police Benevolent Association is encouraged, but says the fight is far from over.

“I think it’s definitely still a work in progress, it is reasonable. The governor’s plan is certainly unreasonable, this is certainly a lot better than that, but we still got some work to do, there’s still some things that can be tightened up,” said Puckett.

The pension changes still have more stops in the Senate and House.