Studia Administracyjne

The analysis was carried out on the Judgment of the Provincial Administrative Court of November 27, 2022 with reference number II SA/Sz 1182/21 concerning the provisions of the Act on family benefits (hereinafter referred to as the Act on differentiate the situation of persons with the right to family benefits), as clearly stated in Art. 17 sec. 1 u.ś.r., the benefit in question is addressed to people who do not take up or resign from employment or other gainful work in order to take care of a person who has a certificate of severe disability. The negation of the causal relationship between the applicant’s failure to take up employment and the care provided would have to be based on fully authoritative premises, clearly undermining this relationship in a subjective or objective aspect. caregivers of disabled people, consisting in the exclusion of the entire right to the care benefit of those caregivers who have an established right to one of the benefits listed in art. 17 sec. 5 point 1 lit. a u.ś.r., in a situation where this benefit is lower than the nursing benefit. First of all, it should be noted that the purpose of the nursing benefit is to compensate for the lack of income from gainful employment due to caring for a disabled family member. for this group of caregivers, despite the fact that while providing care after obtaining the right to retirement, the guardian may not take up gainful employment. 17 sec. 5 point 1 lit. and the Act on family benefits should be understood as a way to avoid the accumulation of received benefits, and not as the exclusion of the possibility of establishing the right to a nursing benefit in a situation where the person applying for this benefit meets the conditions for obtaining another benefit specified in this provision. to obtain a nursing benefit, it is not necessary to apply for the revocation of the decision establishing the right to a retirement pension, and it is sufficient to suspend its payment.