Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the previous pension decision could be revised by reconsideration and whether the insured person's right to be heard was violated by the change from revision to reconsideration.
Decisione estratta
The previous 2001 pension-confirming decision was manifestly incorrect, so reconsideration was admissible. No separate hearing was required because the court may apply the law ex officio and revision and reconsideration are related institutes.
Motivazione estratta
The 1996 award was not clearly wrong, but by 2001 the insured person had left his former job and the earlier reasons for a half pension no longer existed. The decisive legal basis was already implicit in the administrative decision, and the party had to expect possible substitution of reasoning.