Public sector workers, including teachers, police, and firefighters, as well as their spouses and survivors, are seeing increases averaging $360 and sometimes over $1,000 per month.
The changes aim to address long-standing benefit reductions, with some beneficiaries also receiving retroactive lump-sum payments as the new rules are gradually implemented.
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