Scheuer v. Central States Pension Fund

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

In this action plaintiff, a member of the teamsters union for over thirty years, seeks pension benefits from the defendant pension fund. The fund has denied his application for benefits on the ground that he was self-employed between 1956 and 1965, that this constituted a break in service resulting in the loss of all service credit for work performed prior to the break, and that as a result plaintiff has failed to accumulate the twenty years of service required for benefit eligibility. Plaintiff has contended that there was no break in service, and that even if there…