Millions more have quit the workforce altogether, subsisting on disability pensions or other social benefits.

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That includes people who have retired early, those on disability pensions, and the beneficiaries of a wide variety of other welfare programmes.

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The awards are calculated based on economic loss, pain and suffering, minus other payments such as pensions or disability payments for injuries.

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