Questão jurídica principal
Whether the CHF 22,600 refund of family allowances was lawful.
Decisão extraída
No. The office was not at fault for the missed offsetting, so it did not have to reimburse the family allowances paid between August 2011 and June 2015.
Fundamentação extraída
The compensation office knew, or should have known, that the family was receiving family allowances; it had access to the relevant information and failed to offset the later EL payment against the overpaid allowances. The social services office had already been reimbursed through the IV back payment and could not be blamed for not requesting an offset in November 2015.