Questione giuridica chiave
Whether a person who planned early retirement may be treated as an employed insured person for disability assessment.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The respondent could invoke employed status in the disability case; the court saw no reason to depart from the existing case law for early retirees.
Motivazione estratta
The decisive point is not when the health impairment occurred, but whether the insured person would have remained in work absent the impairment. Since the respondent would have continued working until 31 December 2011, the pensionable event could only arise from January 2012 onward.