Key legal question
Whether the Departement des Innern was competent to order repayment of unlawfully received social welfare by decision.
Extracted holding
Yes. The department was competent to examine and enforce repayment claims for social welfare by decision under the Social Welfare Act.
Extracted reasoning
Although § 164 SG contains no express competence rule, the court read the scheme, legislative history, and systematic context as showing that the canton retained competence for repayment orders; § 14 SG is a general provision for repayment of social benefits and the legislature did not intend to change the former allocation of powers.