Key legal question
Whether compulsory military service after secondary school counts as education for continuation of an AHV orphan pension.
Extracted holding
Yes. Where the insured person has only completed an initial stage of education and likely will continue training after compulsory military service, the pension entitlement is not interrupted.
Extracted reasoning
The military service was obligatory and therefore an external circumstance. The court found it probable that the respondent would resume medical studies after service, and it rejected the view that later continuation must already be certain. Treating the service as breaking the training would create unequal treatment compared with students who can begin studies before military service.