{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1805",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefits (Subsidy) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Overpayment of rebates or allowances",
  "text": "(1) Where an authority makes an overpayment of housing benefit during the year, its subsidy for the year shall include any amount which may be payable in accordance with paragraph (2) of this article.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), subsidy under paragraph (1) of this article shall be payable in certificated cases only, and in such a case the amount of subsidy shall be the following percentage of the difference between the amount of the overpayment and the amount, if any, of the overpayment recovered by the authority—\n(a) in respect of an overpayment caused by an error of the authority making the payment, 100%; and\n(b) in respect of any other overpayment—\n(i) in the case of an authority referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 of the Schedule to this Order, 100%, and\n(ii) in the case of an authority referred to in paragraph 3 of the Schedule to this Order, 100.6%.\n(3) The total amount of subsidy payable to an authority for the year in respect of an overpayment to which paragraph (2)(a) of this article applies shall not exceed 0.19% of the aggregate of—\n(a) the total of rebates and allowances granted by that authority during the year in certificated cases, and\n(b) the total of any overpayments made by that authority to which paragraph (2)(b) of this article applies less any amount of those overpayments recovered by that authority.\n(4) In this article “overpayment” means any amount paid by way of housing benefit to which there was no entitlement under the Regulations, including any excess of housing benefit actually paid over the amount to which there was in fact entitlement under the Regulations and including any amount in excess of the amount, if any, of benefit which would have been due had a certificate under regulation 9 of the Regulations not been issued or, as the case may be, had such a certificate been cancelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1805/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:16.688482+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."
}