Questão jurídica principal
Whether the 2003 application had to be treated as a first pension claim rather than a new application after a final pension refusal.
Decisão extraída
The prior 1999 decision did not concern a pension claim, so no pension entitlement had been finally denied before the 2003 filing; the cantonal court therefore applied the wrong legal framework.
Fundamentação extraída
A new pension claim requires a prior final merits decision on pension entitlement. The 1999 decision dealt only with vocational measures and did not examine a pension, so the 2003 filing was not a mere reapplication after final pension rejection.