# The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefits (Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 1991, Regulation 13: Amendment of regulation 99 of the 1987 regulations


Regulation 99 of the 1987 Regulations (recoverable overpayments) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs–
(a) in paragraph (2) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (4),”;
(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following new paragraph–
“(4) Where in consequence of an official error, a person has been awarded rent rebate to which he was not entitled or which exceeded the benefit to which he was entitled, upon the award being reviewed any overpayment of benefit, which remains credited to him by the appropriate authority in respect of a period after the date of the review, shall be recoverable.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1599/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefits-miscellaneous-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-13
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