17The Spanish and Greek Governments and the Commission refer in support of their arguments to the case-law of the Court holding that entitlement to family benefits payable by the State in which the orphan resides does not result in the loss of entitlement to higher benefits previously acquired as against another Member State. In those circumstances a benefit supplement equal to the difference between the two amounts is payable by the latter Member State (see, in particular, Case 733/79 CCAF v Laterza [1980] ECR 1915, Case 807/79 Gravina v Landesversicherungsanstalt Schwaben [1980] ECR 2205 and Case C-251/89 Athanasopoulos and Others v Bundesanstalt für Arbeit [1991] ECR I-2797). The fact that, in the main proceedings, no supplement was paid in the past — whether because there turned out to be no difference in amount or because benefit was not claimed — cannot result in the entitlement being lost for good.
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