Irrelevance of the source of the permanent disability pension (common illness or non-occupational accident) in accessing the right to a minimum wage supplement

Commentary on Supreme Court Ruling 1007/2024, of July 10

Abstract

The question at issue in Supreme Court Judgment 1007/2024, dated July 10, is whether a beneficiary under 60 years of a total permanent incapacity pension, resulting from a non-occupational accident, may be entitled to minimum supplement, as if it were a common illness, while complying with the conditions of Article 59 of the General Social Security Law established in order to entitle to the above-mentioned supplement. On this issue, the final resolution of the Supreme Court, by means of a teleological interpretation, clarifies the extension of the right to minimum allowance to beneficiaries of total permanent disability resulting from non-occupational accidents under 60 years.