Housing benefit Housing benefit Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below: s. 73 and cross-heading repealed by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 Sch. 12 Pt. 1 73Overpayments of housing benefit. Notes on Part III Modifications C1 Pt. III (ss. 69-76) restricted (1.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), arts. 1(4), 65 Housing benefit