Key legal question
Whether the repayment of overpaid supplementary benefits should be remitted because the recipient acted in good faith.
Extracted holding
Remission was properly refused because the recipient could have recognized and reported the change in household composition with due attention, at least from mid-November 2004 onward.
Extracted reasoning
Good faith for remission requires more than ignorance of the defect; the official notices expressly warned about the duty to report changes in the number of persons in the household. The alleged depressive episode could, at most, explain a short temporary inability, but it did not justify the prolonged failure to report over many months.