{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-99.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/99",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Meaning of overpayment",
  "text": "In this Part, “overpayment” means any amount which has been paid by way of housing benefit and to which there was no entitlement under these Regulations (whether on the initial decision or as subsequently revised or superseded or further revised or superseded) and includes any amount paid on account under regulation 93 (payment on account of a rent allowance) which is in excess of the entitlement to housing benefit as subsequently decided.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 99 substituted by S.I. 2005/2904, reg. 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(3) (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/99",
    "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."
}