Supreme Court held pension eligibility depends on temporal, not causal, link between school attendance and disability onset.

The Supreme Court of Poland overturned lower court rulings that denied a pension to a student who became completely disabled after a traffic accident. The applicant argued for a causal link between the accident and her inability to work, while the Social Insurance Institution and the appellate court insisted on a temporal connection to her school attendance. The court ruled that the statute requires only that the disability occurred during school years, regardless of whether the accident directly caused it, thereby allowing the pension.