{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1069",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Further Methods of Recovery) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3(2) (recoverable amounts)—\n(a) omit sub-paragraph (a);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—\n“(ca) section 80G (recovery of costs);”.\n(3) In the following regulations, for “found guilty” substitute “convicted”—\n(a) regulation 11(3)(a)(i) (recovery by deduction from universal credit);\n(b) regulation 14(3)(a)(i) (recovery by deduction from state pension credit);\n(c) regulation 15(2)(a) (restrictions on recovery of rent and consequent notifications);\n(d) regulation 20(3A) (amount to be deducted by employer).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/384. Regulation 20(3A) was inserted by S.I. 2015/499."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 71ZE(3) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (“the Act”) was omitted, and section 80G of the Act inserted, by section 99(2) to (3) of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1069/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:12.169058+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."
}