{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-86.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/86",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Methods of recovery",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any other method of recovery a relevant authority may recover any recoverable excess benefit ... by any of the methods specified in paragraph (2) and (3) or any combination of those methods.\n(2) Excess benefit may be recovered...—\n(a) by payment by or on behalf of the claimant or the person to whom the excess benefit was allowed; or\n(b) by an addition being made by the relevant authority to any amount payable in respect of the council tax concerned.\n(3) Where recoverable excess benefit cannot be recovered by either of the methods specified in paragraph (2), the relevant authority may request the Secretary of State to recover the outstanding excess—\n(a) from the benefits prescribed in regulation 90(1); or\n(b) where the claimant has one or more partners, from the benefits prescribed in regulation 90(1B), provided that the claimant and that partner were a couple both at the time the excess benefit was allowed and when the deduction is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 86(1) omitted (6.4.2009) by virtue of The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2824), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 86(2) omitted (6.4.2009) by virtue of The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2824), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 86(2) substituted (6.4.2009) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2824), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 86(3) substituted (6.4.2009) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2824), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 86(3)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Recovery) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/645), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/215/regulation/86",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:43.706263+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}