Question juridique clé
Whether a supplementary benefits application was filed before February 2014 so that entitlement could start in January 2012.
Solution extraite
The court found it not established with sufficient probability that an EL application had been filed before February 2014; entitlement therefore began only in February 2014.
Motifs extraits
The 2012-dated form was unsupported by the record, did not match the contemporaneous official form, lacked the relevant filing stamp/entry, and the office records and inquiry to the local branch pointed against an earlier EL application. The proof standard of predominant probability was not met.