Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the MEDAS-assessed 50% incapacity established a disabling invalidity for pension purposes
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The assessed limitation was mainly due to psychosocial factors and a stand-alone dysthymia did not amount to a legally relevant health impairment on these facts.
Extrahierte Begründung
A psychiatric diagnosis only qualifies if it reflects a legally relevant health damage; here the expert report, though otherwise probative, did not match the legal proof object because the impairment stemmed from non-medical burden factors. Dysthymia alone is generally not disabling absent additional serious pathology.