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Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights (January – June 2026) ,

Marthe Delodder, Max Gelissen, Eleni De Becker

European Journal of Social Security | Sep 7, 2026

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This case law report examines three cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and two collective complaints before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR). The ECtHR judgments concern, respectively, the allegedly discriminatory application of a cap on welfare benefits to lone parents with very young children, the exclusion of a self-employed person from income compensation during temporary incapacity for work, and the unlawful discontinuation of an old-age pension. The ECSR decisions concern, respectively, Italy's prolonged failure to establish a complementary pension scheme for members of the Armed Forces and the Military Police, the delayed implementation of salary and pension harmonisation for national firefighters, as well as the failure to remedy inequalities affecting firefighters during the transitional period.

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Marthe Delodder

first | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | ORCID 0009-0005-6173-2007

Max Gelissen

middle | Rijksmuseum

Eleni De Becker

last | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | ORCID 0000-0002-3399-0421

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@article{Delodder2026Overview,
  title = {Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights (January – June 2026) ,},
  author = {Marthe Delodder and Max Gelissen and Eleni De Becker},
  journal = {European Journal of Social Security},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1177/13882627261475133},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627261475133}
}

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