Key legal question
Whether further vocational measures, especially retraining, had to be ordered before assessing the pension claim.
Extracted holding
No further vocational measures were required because the BEFAS assessment showed retraining had no realistic prospect of success and the pension issue could be examined directly.
Extracted reasoning
The principle of rehabilitation before pension had been observed through the BEFAS assessment. In light of the insured person's rejecting attitude and the expert view that retraining was unlikely to succeed, the IV office was entitled to move on to pension assessment.