Facts
O., a Swiss national born in Switzerland in 1997, suffered from an infantile psychoorganic syndrome and received medical measures from the IV-Stelle St. Gallen. When O. and her mother informed the IV-Stelle in 2008 that they had been living in Ecuador for about two years, the IV-Stelle transferred the files to the IV-Stelle for Insured Persons Abroad. The latter informed O. that since her departure from Switzerland on 1 October 2005, she had no longer been subject to compulsory insurance and therefore had no entitlement to integration measures from that time onwards. O. filed a complaint against this decision.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court dismissed the complaint. It stated that according to Art. 9 para. 2 IVG, persons who are not or are no longer subject to insurance are entitled to integration measures only until the age of 20, provided that at least one parent is voluntarily or compulsorily insured abroad during employment. As neither O. nor her mother were voluntarily insured and the father did not fall under the mentioned exceptions, they did not meet the…