Question juridique clé
Whether the original 1999 disability pension decision could be reconsidered as manifestly erroneous under Art. 53(2) LPGA.
Solution extraite
Yes. The original pension award was based on an unsustainable assessment and could be revised by reconsideration because it was manifestly erroneous and the error was significant.
Motifs extraits
The Court held that reconsideration is admissible when the original decision is clearly wrong and correction is important. The COMAI expertise showed no invalidating psychiatric disorder and no medically substantiated incapacity at the relevant time; the initial calculation of invalidity was also unsound.