Tanging si Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile ang bumoto laban sa panukalang batas.
“…While we are going to favor present beneficiaries, the cost of this generous grant of across-the-board benefit or additional to their benefit, in the end, it (SSS) will be bankrupted because this is a contributor system and not a social security system or funded by the national government,” sabi ni Enrile.
Sa kabila ng pagkontra ni Enrile, inaprubahan ng mga senador ang House Bill 5842 o ang Social Security Act, na naglalayong amyendahan ang section 12 ng Republic Act 1162 o ang Social Security Act of 1997.