Supreme Court allows pension for journalists meeting old age requirements regardless of job status at retirement age.

The Supreme Court ruled that a journalist could claim early retirement benefits based on accumulated service even if they had ceased working as a journalist upon reaching the statutory age. The applicant, a former journalist, was denied benefits because the pension office required her to have been employed as a journalist at the exact moment she turned 55. The court determined that the law only required the journalist to have met the service and age criteria before the new pension law took effect, not to be actively employed in that capacity at the time of retirement. Consequently, the right to the pension is acquired once the specific conditions are met prior to the new law's implementation, independent of the employee's current job status.