Key legal question
Whether the French property purchased with vested benefits had to be counted in social assistance assessment
Extracted holding
Yes. The property value had to be taken into account; it made the claimant ineligible for assistance.
Extracted reasoning
Social assistance is subsidiary to the applicant’s income and assets, including social-insurance benefits. Once pension capital is paid out, it enters the asset base, and it is irrelevant whether real estate was acquired with that capital. The cantonal court’s application of cantonal law was not arbitrary.