Reclaiming Unjustly Received Disability Pensions for Breach of Duty to Report

Facts

- A., born in 1979, was insured with the SUVA as a mason from 15 October 2007. On 18 October 2007, he suffered a work accident and received a disability pension from 1 September 2009. - On 6 August 2015, the SUVA initiated a revision procedure. It terminated the disability pension as of 31 December 2013 and reclaimed the overpaid pensions from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2015 in the amount of CHF 11,069.30. - The Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich dismissed A.'s appeal.

Considerations

- The lower court correctly determined that A. had breached his duty to report under Art. 31(1) GSSLA by not reporting the significantly higher salary from 1 January 2014. - In case of a breach of the duty to report, a retroactive adjustment of the pension to the time of the change in…