One solution could be to set up an ‘insurance fund’, managed by the producer organisations and financed with public and private monies, that would be used to pay compensation for withdrawals made in times of crisis.

The right of an individual to take his/her entitlement with him/her differs depending on whether the payment is in cash (daily allowance, pensions, etc.) or in kind (medical assistance, hospitalisation etc.).

Besides direct redundancy benefit and early retirement provision for employees, general social support schemes frequently provide for the government to cover the cost of benefits which the company grants to redundant workers and which go beyond its statutory or contractual obligations.

(78) These aids are intended to cover the following, with the exception of the costs of social benefits borne by the State by way of the special contribution referred to in Article 56 of the ECSC Treaty: the cost of paying social welfare benefits resulting from the pensioning-off of workers before they reach statutory retirement age; other exceptional expenditure on workers who lose their jobs as a result of restructuring and rationalisation; the payment of pensions and allowances outside the statutory system to workers who lose their jobs as a result of restructuring and rationalisation and to workers entitled to such payments before ...[+++]the restructuring; the supply of free coal to workers who lose their jobs as a result of restructuring and rationalisation and to workers entitled to such supply before the restructuring.

Policies such as early retirement pensions, disability benefits and unemployment benefits unconnected to active job search after a certain age limit, have encouraged early withdrawal of older people from the labour market.

(c) the payment of retirement or survivors' pensions to ex-employees or their survivors, and the payment of severance allowances to workers or their survivors in the event of redundancy, incapacity, accidental death, etc (if linked to collective agreements);