Question juridique clé
Whether Art. 3(3)(a) AHVG exempts a non-employed spouse from AHV contributions when the other spouse is an employed old-age pensioner.
Solution extraite
The exemption also applies where the non-employed spouse, after the first insured event, already has sufficient credited income and contribution years to qualify for the maximum old-age pension.
Motifs extraits
The earlier restrictive interpretation based on the inability to split post-pension income no longer applies where the contribution years already secure the maximum pension; in that situation, denying the exemption would require a clearly discernible contrary legislative intent, which is absent.