Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the waiting period for an invalidity pension had already started before July 2000, so that a pension would arise before 1 July 2001
Decisione estratta
The medical records did not establish an uninterrupted significant incapacity for work before July 2000; the waiting period therefore began in July 2000 and the pension only from 1 July 2001.
Motivazione estratta
The Federal Court accepted the probative value of the rheumatology reports and the MEDAS assessment. They excluded the necessary continuous incapacity in the relevant period; further evidentiary measures were unlikely to yield new decisive findings.