Supreme Court allows compensation certificate for pensioners who had rights but could not receive them due to unconstitutional exclusion.

The Supreme Court of Poland overturned lower court decisions denying a pensioner the right to receive a compensatory certificate for lost salary increases. The applicant had established rights to special working condition bonuses before the 1991 revaluation law but could not realize them because his pension files were lost and he was excluded by an unconstitutional provision. The court ruled that the statute grants rights to those who met the conditions, not merely those who actively received payments prior to the law's enactment.