Regulation 88 Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpaymentsI1
England, Wales and Scotland
In calculating the amount of a recoverable overpayment, the appropriate authority–
(a)
if it determines that a lesser amount was properly payable in respect of the whole or part of the overpayment period, shall deduct that amountF1; and
(b)
may deduct so much of any payment of personal community charge or collective community charge contribution in respect of the overpayment period which exceeds the amount, if any, which the claimant was liable to pay for that period under the original erroneous determination.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in reg. 88(a) substituted (10.7.1989) by The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/972), regs. 1(1)(a), 6