Facts
A. was granted a full disability pension from the disability insurance from 1 December 1997 to 31 March 2001, and then a half-pension as of 1 April 2001. He has also been receiving since 1 October 1999 an accident insurance pension based on a degree of disability of 30%. In addition to these benefits, A. was also awarded as of 1 October 1999 an invalidity pension from the occupational pension provision based on a degree of disability of 50% paid by the Pension Fund for the Benefit of the Manual Workers of B. SA. By letter dated 22 October 2012, the Pension Fund informed A. that it would terminate the payment of the invalidity pension from the occupational pension provision as of 1 November 2012 due to over-compensation. A. filed an action against the Pension Fund before the Social Insurance Chamber of the Court of Justice of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.Considerations
The Federal Tribunal dismissed A.'s appeal against the judgment of the cantonal court. It considered that the Pension Fund had not complied with the obligations set out in the case law regarding the right to be heard, by not allowing A. to express his views on the inclusion in the calculation of over-compensation of the disabled person's income taken into account by the disability insurance as a hypothetical income. However, the Federal Tribunal considered that, insofar as A. had been able to fully exercise his right to be heard before the cantonal court, he could no longer claim the allocation of costs as compensation for the initial violation of his right to be heard by the Pension Fund.
Furthermore, the…