Supreme Court dismissed pension claim for Soviet deportee, ruling law did not cover forced exile cases at the time.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by Walentyna C., who sought a war invalid pension based on her forced exile to the USSR between 1940 and 1945. The lower courts correctly applied the law as it stood on July 1, 1997, which explicitly excluded persons deported to the Soviet Union from receiving war invalid pensions. The Court ruled that while the applicant was denied this specific benefit, the law provided other significant privileges for her, and a new legislative amendment would grant the pension rights retroactively for future claims.