00:00A plan to improve first responders' retirement benefits is in limbo after the cabinet blocked
00:06it Tuesday.
00:07Right now, the pension system pays up to 75 percent of what retired police officers and
00:13firefighters make while on the job.
00:16Lawmakers voted last session to raise that cap to 80 percent.
00:20Not everyone would get more.
00:22This maximum only applies to people who've worked a full 36 years.
00:26Premier Zhu Rongtai says even so, raising the cap would be hard to do financially,
00:32and he's told the legislature it needs to vote on the issue a second time.
00:36The opposition majority says it'll vote to keep the changes.
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