The Parliament decided to increase the amount of old-age pensions and other allowances, but fixed the maximum of the increase both in percent and in nominal sum. The petitioners claimed that this violated their right to social assistance provided by the Constitution. The Constitutional Court’s ruling pointed out that the social insurance – in part inherited from socialism – still has a mixed nature: partly it is an insurance, partly a social benefit. No one has a constitutional right to the protection of the same living standard.