{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-71ZF",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-71ZF.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/71ZF",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71ZF",
  "heading": "Adjustment of benefit",
  "text": "Regulations may for the purpose of the recovery of amounts recoverable under section 71ZB make provision—\n(a) for treating any amount paid to a person under an award which it is subsequently determined was not payable—\n(i) as properly paid, or\n(ii) as paid on account of a payment which it is determined should be or should have been made,\nand for reducing or withholding arrears payable by virtue of the subsequent determination;\n(b) for treating any amount paid to one person in respect of another as properly paid for any period for which it is not payable in cases where in consequence of a subsequent determination—\n(i) the other person is entitled to a payment for that period, or\n(ii) a third person is entitled in priority to the payee to a payment for that period in respect of the other person,\nand by reducing or withholding any arrears payable for that period by virtue of the subsequent determination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 71ZB-71ZH and cross-heading inserted (1.7.2012 for specified purposes, 1.10.2012 for specified purposes, 29.4.2013 in so far as not already in force, except for s 71ZB(1)(d) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and, in respect of s. 71ZB(1)(b)(c) only in so far as those paragraphs relate respectively to a new style JSA award and a new style ESA award) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 105(1), 150(3); S.I. 2012/1246, art. 2(4)(a)(b)(5)(a); S.I. 2013/358, art. 5(2)(3)(a) (with art. 5(3A)(7)) (as amended by S.I. 2013/983, art. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/71ZF",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}