Key legal question
Whether the insured remained liable for AVS/AI/APG contributions for 1997-2001, including default interest for 2000-2001
Extracted holding
The record was insufficient to confirm that the supplementary-benefits authority had paid those contributions; the cantonal judgment had to be set aside and the case remanded for further evidence-taking.
Extracted reasoning
The lower court relied on contradictory documents from parallel supplementary-benefits proceedings and did not adequately address a letter from the SPC indicating the contributions had been treated as expenses in the benefits calculation and thus remained owed. Free assessment of evidence was violated.