Questão jurídica principal
Whether the recovery claim for overpaid pension supplements was time-barred under Art. 25 ATSG
Decisão extraída
The one-year relative limitation period began only when the administration, exercising due attention, could have recognized both the incorrect marital status and the resulting undue payment; on the facts, this was not shown before November 2007, so the January 2008 recovery order was timely.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that the relevant trigger is not the original erroneous recording, but the point when the fund could and should have detected the error. The office had no duty to conduct regular full reviews, and the incorrect marital status had no effect on the pension before the 10th AHV revision adjustment. Whether the mistake arose in the 2001 recalculation or earlier did not help the appellant; if earlier, the error existed but had not yet caused an undue payment, and if at recalculation, the claim was not time-barred.