Question juridique clé
Whether rent costs for the partner's home in X. could be recognized as EL expenses or offset as income
Solution extraite
No rent expense could be deducted for the partner's home; if free lodging were treated as an expense, the corresponding free housing benefit would have to be counted as income, and the asserted personal arrangement did not qualify as an excluded support payment.
Motifs extraits
The court held that unfree lodging from a partner is not covered by the exclusion for support-like private benefits. Since no actual rent was paid, the claimed expense lacked a factual basis; in any event, a recurring benefit in kind would be an income item unless excluded by Art. 11(3) ELG.