Key legal question
Whether transfers to relatives, goddaughter, a farming family, and a church had to be treated as waived assets for supplementary benefits purposes.
Extracted holding
The challenged transfers were not shown to fulfill any legal or moral duty; they were correctly treated as waived assets, except for documented 2001 household-furnishing expenses accepted as permissible asset consumption.
Extracted reasoning
The factual findings that the later payments were not made under a legal or moral obligation were not manifestly incorrect. The time gap ruled out a legally required family-support obligation, the assistance exceeded ordinary family help, and no remunerated assistance agreement existed. The church donation amount was unknown, and the 2001 furnishing expenses were documented and accepted as ordinary asset consumption.