Question juridique clé
Whether the claimant received the supplementary benefits in good faith for purposes of waiver of repayment.
Solution extraite
Yes. Good faith is assessed at the time the benefits were paid; at that time the husband’s IV proceedings were still pending, so the claimant could not know of the later retroactive pension award and resulting overpayment.
Motifs extraits
The court distinguished between mere awareness of a possible future change and actual knowledge of an unlawful payment. The claimant had no reliable knowledge that the IV claim would later be granted retroactively when the EL amounts were paid.