31Benefits such as adaptation allowances differ from old-age benefits in that they pursue an object related to employment policy. In the case of rationalization, they make it possible to release posts held by workers who are near the age of retirement, an aim which emerged only after the implementation of Regulation No 1408/71 in the context of the economic crisis which has for some years affected the Community in general and the mining sector in particular (see, to that effect, Case 171/82 Valentini v Assedie [1983] ECR 2157, paragraph 17). In the case of closures too the grant of the allowance contributes, as indicated in paragraph 27 of this judgment, to reducing the number of laid-off workers who are subject to the unemployment insurance scheme.
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