{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-100",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-100.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/100",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "100",
  "heading": "Recoverable overpayments",
  "text": "(1) Any overpayment, except one to which paragraph (2) applies, shall be recoverable.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4) this paragraph applies to an overpayment which arose in consequence of an official error where the claimant or a person acting on his behalf or any other person to whom the payment is made could not, at the time of receipt of the payment or of any notice relating to that payment, reasonably have been expected to realise that it was an overpayment.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “overpayment which arose in consequence of an official error ” means an overpayment caused by a mistake made whether in the form of an act or omission by—\n(a) the relevant authority;\n(b) an officer or person acting for that authority;\n(c) an officer of—\n(i) the Department for Work and Pensions; or\n(ii) Revenue and Customs,\nacting as such; or\n(d) a person providing services to the Department for Work and Pensions or to the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs,\nwhere the claimant, a person acting on his behalf or any other person to whom the payment is made, did not cause or materially contribute to that mistake, act or omission.\n(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to which he was not entitled or which exceeded the benefit to which he was entitled, upon the award being revised or superseded any overpayment of benefit, which remains credited to him by the relevant authority in respect of a period after the date on which the revision or supersession took place, shall be recoverable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 100(2) substituted by S.I. 2005/2904, reg. 4(2) (as amended) (10.4.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 29(5)(b) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 100(3) substituted by S.I. 2005/2904, reg. 4(3) (as amended) (10.4.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 29(5)(c) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 100(4) inserted by S.I. 2005/2904, reg. 4(4) (as amended) (10.4.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 29(5)(d) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/regulation/100",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:43.605354+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."
}