Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the early retirement bonus was a voluntary employer benefit that could be deducted as occupational pension financing under unemployment law when actually paid into the employee's pension fund.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The bonus could be treated as a benefit for occupational pension purposes to the extent it was in fact paid by the insured person into his own pension fund after 1 June 2006.
Extrahierte Begründung
The decisive factor is the actual use of the voluntary payment for the insured person's own occupational pension. It does not matter that the employer paid the amount to a private account rather than directly to a vested-benefits account.