Questão jurídica principal
Whether the 14 January 2004 reconsideration decision reducing the disability insurance daily allowance was valid
Decisão extraída
The decision was void because it was issued by the compensation fund rather than the competent IV office, was insufficiently reasoned, unsigned, and not properly served.
Fundamentação extraída
The IV office had to assess the reconsideration prerequisites itself. The file showed the compensation fund effectively drafted and issued the decision without the IV office's involvement. Such a serious competence and formal defect made the decision manifestly defective and void.