Question juridique clé
Whether the pension fund could set off its damages claim against the appellant’s cash payment of vested benefits.
Solution extraite
The set-off was admissible because the fund asserted its own direct claim under company-liability rules, not a claim ceded by the bankrupt employer.
Motifs extraits
The restriction on compensation in pension law did not apply to a direct claim held by the pension institution as a social creditor; the cited precedent excluding set-off concerned transfer of vested benefits, not cash payment. The appellant could not rely on indirect damage or on bankruptcy-cession rules.