Facts
D. (born 1997) and F. (born 1996) are wards and live in a foster family in the Canton of Schwyz. Their father, H., residing in the Canton of Zurich, receives a disability pension and two extraordinary child pensions. Effective from December 1, 2004, the municipality of A., the implementing agency for supplementary benefits to the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance (AHV) and Disability Insurance (IV), granted supplementary benefits to D. and F. On March 15, 2012, D. and F. filed a request for higher supplementary benefits, arguing that the care provided by their foster family in the Canton of Schwyz had significantly increased.
Considerations
The Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich did not enter into the appeals of D. and F. due to lack of local jurisdiction and ordered the transfer of the files to the Administrative Court of the Canton of Schwyz for further processing.
The Federal Supreme Court overturned the decision not to enter and remanded the matter to the Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich for substantive consideration of the appeal. It justified this by stating that in disputes over benefits, the domicile of the…