Key legal question
Whether the new IV application of 4 January 2017 had to be entertained under Art. 87 IVV
Extracted holding
The insured had shown sufficient indications of a potentially relevant new psychiatric condition; the office therefore had to enter into the application and assess it materially.
Extracted reasoning
Dermatological and rheumatological documents did not show a relevant change compared with 2005, but the psychiatric report and the long treatment history created enough concrete indications of a newly emerged psychische Störung. Given the eleven-year gap since the last material decision, the threshold for plausible change was not overly strict.