Key legal question
Whether the supplementary pension for April to September 2002 had to be paid to the appellant or her husband
Extracted holding
The pension did not have to be paid to the appellant; the cantonal authorities could treat the Obergericht’s family-law order as binding and direct payment to the husband.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 34(4) IVG, the supplementary pension may be paid to the non-rententitled spouse when the spouses live separately and that spouse requests payment; the civil court’s contrary arrangement on payment mode prevails over the social-insurance authorities. The Obergericht’s order covered the whole period from April 2002 and was binding on the welfare authority.