Kernrechtsfrage
Whether social assistance may require use of withdrawable BVG vested benefits as available resources
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. Under cantonal social welfare law and the SKOS guidelines, a withdrawable vested-benefits account can be treated as available assets and, in this case, the applicant could reasonably be required to use it.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that social assistance is subsidiary and that the SKOS rules, made binding through cantonal law, require use of readily realisable assets. Since the applicant could obtain the vested-benefits capital early without suffering a pension reduction comparable to a forfeited retirement pension, and because comparable treatment with actual recipients of vested benefits avoids unequal treatment, the cantonal court's approach was not arbitrary.