Facts

A., born in 1965, received an IV (Disability Insurance) pension from the mandatory accident insurance (UV) from November 2003 due to several accidents. By order of June 2014, SUVA retroactively reduced the UV pension to 34% as of 1 August 2010 and reclaimed the overpaid pension benefits from A. The Insurance Court of the Canton of Aargau and the Federal Supreme Court upheld this decision.

Considerations

The Federal Supreme Court states that, unlike IV, the social accident insurance does not have a special regulation for the retroactive revocation or reduction of a pension. Therefore, the pension benefit can be corrected retroactively ("ex tunc") here, and the unjustly received amounts can be reclaimed without a breach of the reporting obligation. The reclamation was made in due time according to Art. 25 para. 2…