Question juridique clé
Whether unpaid nursing home invoices from the previous year may be deducted as debts when calculating attributable assets for EL purposes.
Solution extraite
No. Costs covered by recognized EL expenses must be paid from current EL benefits and cannot reduce net assets for the purpose of calculating deemed asset consumption under Art. 11(1)(c) ELG.
Motifs extraits
The court followed Federal Supreme Court case law holding that living expenses already covered by recognized EL expenditures do not count as deductible debts in the year-end asset calculation, even if unpaid at year-end.