When calculating an old age pension, a member state was wrong to exclude a period in which the applicant had cared for her child in another member state. She was a frontier worker, and the child had been born in the home country. To allow periods in which she had cared for the child in a neighbouring state to be excluded when calculating her pension entitlement would discourage freedom of movement of workers, and was not to be permitted
Citations:
Times 14-Feb-2001, C-135/99
Benefits, European
Updated: 19 May 2022; Ref: scu.80303