Rejection of the Claimant's Pension Claim

Facts

[A.] , born in 1969, applied to the Disability Insurance (IV) for benefits in March 2018 after suffering a stroke in February 2018. The IV office in Bern then initiated various medical assessments, including a resilience training and interdisciplinary expert opinions. Based on these documents, the IV office awarded [A.] a helplessness allowance for mild helplessness, but denied a pension claim due to the lack of disabling effects of the health impairment. The Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern confirmed this decision.

Considerations

The Federal Supreme Court overturns the judgment of the Administrative Court and the decision of the IV office, and remands the case to the IV office for re-evaluation. It justifies this by stating that the IV office failed to submit the expert opinions it had commissioned, which certified an 80% incapacity to work, to the Regional Medical Service (RAD) for a medical insurance assessment. This…