37Secondly, it is necessary to examine whether the assistance at issue is granted to the public servant by reason of the latter’s employment. It follows from settled case-law that, in order to determine whether a benefit comes within the scope of Article 157 TFEU, the one criterion which may prove decisive is whether the benefit was granted to the worker by reason of his employment relationship, and all the more so because this is the only criterion which is based on the wording of that provision itself (see, with regard to retirement pensions, Maruko, paragraph 46 and the case-law cited).
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