Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the Croatian insured person had to satisfy special insurance prerequisites under the Switzerland-Croatia social security agreement and IVG rules.
Decisione estratta
No special additional insurance prerequisites applied; the treaty equalized him with Swiss nationals for this claim, and the treaty provisions invoked by the authorities were not applicable here.
Motivazione estratta
The agreement gave equal treatment and its specific invalidity-insurance clauses did not create an exception for a helplessness allowance claim by a Croatian resident in Switzerland.