Social security court dismisses pension claim; statutory law requires application, not ex officio action.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal against a lower court's rejection of a widow's claim for early family pension payment. The applicant argued the social security office should have granted the benefit ex officio, but the court found the statutory law only allows such action upon a formal request. Since the applicant had been employed and did not submit a new application when the new law took effect, the court ruled the office was not obligated to act on its own.