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Provisions of the Act on Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund are contested by a citizen in an the extent that they grant the right to working disability pension not earlier than from a month in which the application was submitted, conform to the Constitution. A contradiction with Article 67 para. 1 of the Constitution, is perceived by the complainant in the assumption that the date from which the claim for payment of social security benefits may be requested, is the date of submission of the application instead of the date of an invalidity and the resulting working disability. In the complainant’s case there was a large difference between the time when the terms of acquiring the right to a pension were fulfilled and the moment in which when the application for the benefit was submitted. The legislator, in the case of retirement benefits, including permanent disability pensions, assumed as a rule that the right to retirement and working disability benefits arises from the date of meeting the conditions required to acquire that right