Social Security Court rules pension base amount determined by application date, not employment end date.

The Supreme Social Security Court reversed a lower court decision that had retroactively adjusted a pension using a lower base amount. The applicant argued for the base amount valid at the time of his January 1993 application, while the Social Security Office contended the correct date was the employment termination in October 1992. The court ruled that the base amount must be taken from the application date unless the worker continued employment without receiving benefits, thereby validating the applicant's claim.