57According to the Court’s case-law, while budgetary considerations cannot justify discrimination against one of the sexes, the objectives of ensuring the long-term funding of retirement benefits and narrowing the gap between State-funded pension levels can be considered to constitute legitimate social-policy objectives wholly unrelated to any discrimination based on sex (see, to that effect, judgments of 24 September 2020, YS (Occupational pensions of managerial staff), C‑223/19, EU:C:2020:753, paragraph 61, and of 21 January 2021, INSS, C‑843/19, EU:C:2021:55, paragraph 38).
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