Key legal question
Whether the pension revocation under Art. 17 ATSG could be upheld without examining reintegration measures after nearly 24 years on a full pension.
Extracted holding
No. Before reducing or revoking a pension after a long period out of the labor market, the administration must examine whether the regained work capacity can be exploited by self-reintegration or whether vocational/medical reintegration measures are first required.
Extracted reasoning
The claimant had been outside work and the labor market for most of his adult life, without any recent, settled occupational experience usable for self-reintegration. In such an exceptional case, the administration had to clarify employability and, if needed, implement reintegration measures before deciding again on pension revocation.