(3) Social-security benefits: unemployment benefits, child allowances, medical costs (reimbursement or direct settlement), student grants.

(3) Social-security benefits: unemployment benefits, child allowances, medical costs (reimbursement or direct settlement), student grants and retirement pensions

15. Is thus still not convinced that the SPP-ABM process sufficiently takes into account 'lessons learned' and previous results and how these are fed back into the system for the coming years; points out that this is also linked to how the vast array of studies and evaluations carried out by the Commission are taken into account and influence, as they rightly should, the resource allocation process; proposes therefore to more clearly demand a link to programme reviews and the budgetary process in the terms of reference of the evaluations; proposes further to include in the AAR a chapter on the lessons learned;

15. Is thus still not convinced that the SPP/ABM process sufficiently takes into account 'lessons learned' and previous results and how these are fed back into the system for the coming years; points out that this is also linked to how the vast array of studies and evaluations carried out by the Commission are taken into account and influence, as they rightly should, the resource allocation process; proposes therefore to more clearly demand a link to programme reviews and the budgetary process in the terms of reference of the evaluations; proposes further to include in the AAR a chapter on the lessons learned;

As regards the main developments in Member States' legislation, a Finnish collective agreement provides that every sector can henceforth create a special equality allowance, which is designed to raise the remuneration of women who are not paid sufficiently well despite the difficulty of their work and their education in traditionally low-paid industrial sectors.

To ensure that funding is allocated as efficiently as possible, this Communication also calls on Member State to tackle areas of inefficient spending, such as high failure, dropout and graduate unemployment rates, excessive duration of studies and low attainment levels, and it proposes focusing on the training of education staff, new basic skills, lifelong learning, ICT, active citizenship and information.