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All this when reports from the Netherlands indicate a startling rise in invalidity benefits for people who did hard physical work within a few years of the recently increased official retirement age. This evidence says that a significant part of the money saved has to be spent again on another social programme. Rather than a one-size-fits-all retirement age, it is better to have a flexible retirement age with actuarially neutral discounts for early retirement. That way, workers who know they may well have to retire early can at least save a little extra in the third pillar and retire when they feel they have to, not when the state decides they have to.

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