Supreme Court allows pension increase for simultaneous farmer social insurance payments alongside disability pension.

The Supreme Court of Poland dismissed the Ministry of Justice's cassation appeal and allowed the applicant's request for a pension increase. The applicant, receiving a disability pension for occupational disease, had paid social insurance contributions as a farmer between 1977 and 1988, which lower courts initially treated as separate from the disability benefit. The court ruled that such payments constitute a distinct component of the pension, independent of the occupational disability benefit, and must be added to the existing amount to compensate for dual insurance coverage.