Two-year interruption breaks temporal link in occupational pension disability

ATA/175/1998Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberMar 31, 1998Dismissed

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Omnilex summary

The court held that, in occupational pension matters, a two-year interruption of incapacity of work is sufficiently long to sever the required temporal nexus between an incapacity occurring during affiliation with the pension foundation and the later disability. As a result, the insured person could not derive benefits from the earlier insured incapacity period, and the claim against the foundation failed.

Omnilex headnote

Art. 23 LPP; temporal connection between incapacity of work during affiliation and subsequent disability. An entitlement to occupational pension benefits requires not only that the decisive incapacity for work arise while insured, but also that the causal-temporal link with the later invalidity remain intact. A sufficiently long interruption of earning incapacity breaks this nexus. A two-year interruption is, as a rule, long enough to sever the required connection (consid. not stated).

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; PREVOYANCE PROFESSIONNELLE; INTERRUPTION; INCAPACITE DE TRAVAIL; CONNEXITE; PRESTATION D'ASSURANCE(EN GENERAL); ASSU

Normes

LPP.23

Résumé

Une interruption de l'incapacité de travail de deux ans est suffisamment longue pour entraîner la rupture du lien de connexité temporelle exigé entre l'incapacité de travail survenu pendant l'affiliation à la fondation de prévoyance et l'invalidité subséquente.

Keywords

social insuranceoccupational pensionincapacity of worktemporal nexusdisabilityinterruption

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether a two-year interruption of incapacity of work breaks the required temporal connection under Art. 23 LPP between incapacity during affiliation and later disability.

Extracted holding

Yes. A two-year interruption is long enough to sever the temporal nexus required for entitlement against the pension foundation.

Extracted reasoning

The court held that the interruption interrupted the continuity between the incapacity existing during affiliation and the subsequent invalidity, so the earlier period could no longer be relied on as the triggering incapacity.

Two-year interruption breaks temporal link in occupational pension disabilityAI generated