Martin Kurc is struggling hard at the moment. The 60-year-old is not only in poor health and is currently in a wheelchair, he now also has to wrestle with the pension insurance institution (PVA) for an invalidity pension. The matter is now being fought out on a social law level.
Kurc has been hard hit by fate in recent years. He has had three strokes in the meantime, and he can hardly see anything and is almost blind, he says.
Speaking is also difficult for him. He broke his thigh in a fall in the hospital. Now he’s sitting in a wheelchair for the time being.
The former tiler had recently lived in an apartment. Now he is housed in a nursing home in the Mattersburg district and lives on a few hundred euros a month.
No entitlement to invalidity pension
His findings now fill an entire folder. However, he still does not receive an invalidity pension. Although he had already received a pension for a while, it was limited, says the 60-year-old.
“That was then deleted,” said Kurc. He had been told he could work as a porter. “I’m not the only one affected,” he is convinced. Kurc has now taken legal action against the pension insurance company, the case is at the social court in Eisenstadt.
Waiting for expert opinion
At the hearing on Wednesday, the 60-year-old also emphatically drew attention to his concern. The judge now wants to get medical reports on the health of the 60-year-old in order to make a decision in the case.