Key legal question
Whether the annuity payments from Stiftung S.________ are countable income under ELG or excluded welfare payments with a special support character.
Extracted holding
The payments are countable recurring income; they do not have the special welfare character required for exclusion.
Extracted reasoning
Although the agreement used welfare-like wording, its objective purpose was to settle a damages dispute and to compensate the claimant. The payments were neither granted on a needs-tested basis nor subject to periodic adaptation to need, but were part of a settlement with release and non-disparagement obligations.