99While it is true that the provisions of EU law which confer entitlement to financial benefits must be interpreted strictly (judgment of 30 November 1994, Dornonville de la Cour v Commission, T‑498/93, EU:T:1994:278, paragraph 39), it follows from the foregoing considerations that only the combined application of Article 80 of the Staff Regulations and Article 2 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations, which takes account of the general scheme of the rules governing the orphans’ pension and of the particular situation of the person concerned, namely a child suffering from a serious illness or invalidity, is consistent with the social objective pursued by the payment of an orphans’ pension to such a child, who is prevented from earning a livelihood (see, to that effect and by analogy, judgments of 30 November 1994, Dornonville de la Cour v Commission, T‑498/93, EU:T:1994:278, paragraph 39, and of 29 November 2011, Birkhoff v Commission, T‑10/11 P, EU:T:2011:699, paragraph 50).