Regulation 9 Deduction from certain supplementary payments

(1)

The Department may, in the case of a person from whom an amount is recoverable, recover the outstanding amount by making deductions from—

(a)

such amounts of welfare supplementary payment as are still to be paid in that person’s case, and

(b)

in so far as the outstanding amount is not recovered by using the method under sub-paragraph (a), such amounts of housing supplementary payment as are still to be paid in that person’s case.

(2)

When acting under paragraph (1) in a case where the outstanding amount is less than the total of the amounts referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) (as the case may be), the Department must continue to pay the amounts in question until that total is equal to the outstanding amount.

(3)

In this regulation “housing supplementary payment” means a payment under Article 137A of the 2015 Order^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Article 137A was inserted by Article 19 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1))