Questão jurídica principal
Whether the unemployment authorities breached their duty to advise by failing to warn the insured person that a commercial register entry could jeopardize entitlement to unemployment benefits.
Decisão extraída
Yes. If the application form asks about participation in or management of a business, the authorities must point out the possible consequences of an existing commercial register entry for entitlement.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 27 ATSG imposes not only general information duties but, under para. 2, an individual right to advice. Where a person is asked about business participation or managerial functions, the core of the advisory duty includes warning that the existing register entry may endanger benefit entitlement. The file did not clarify whether such advice had been given.