Supreme Court allows pension recalculation for employed retirees, rejecting prior lower court dismissal based on employment status.

The Supreme Court of Poland overturned lower court decisions to allow a pension recipient who remained employed to recalculate their pension based on earnings from 1989-1991. The applicant argued that excluding her post-approval employment income violated the principle of equivalence between social security contributions and benefits. The court ruled that the statutory period for calculating the pension base must be measured from the application for payment, not the initial grant, thereby correcting the lower courts' error.