Facts
The applicant, born in 1967, was granted a full disability pension as of September 1, 2003. This pension was terminated on October 29, 2012 based on a psychiatric expert report. The applicant then filed a new pension claim which was partially granted, with the award of a one-quarter disability pension as of December 1, 2013. The applicant contested this decision, requesting a higher pension. The cantonal court dismissed this appeal, basing itself on the Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) 2012 to determine the hypothetical income without disability and the disability income.Considerations
The Federal Tribunal ruled that the use of the ESS 2012 is in principle admissible for the determination of the comparison incomes in the context of an initial assessment of disability, a new claim after a rejection or termination of a pension, as well as in a revision procedure (with the birth of the right to a pension or modification of the current pension in 2012 or later). However, ongoing disability pensions granted on the basis of editions of the ESS prior to 2012 cannot be revised solely on the grounds of the application of the wage data resulting from the ESS…