Questione giuridica chiave
Whether supplementary AI pensions for the wife’s children had to be repaid for the separation period before divorce.
Decisione estratta
After separation, the insured person no longer met the conditions for child pensions because he no longer maintained or educated the wife's children; the pensions paid for that period were unduly received and had to be repaid.
Motivazione estratta
The right to a child pension for foster children requires that the insured person gratuitously and durably bears maintenance and education costs. Once the spouses ceased living together and the children lived with their mother, and no further support by the insured person was shown, the foster-child status ended under Art. 49 para. 3 RAVS.