{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/224",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Diminution of capital",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—\n(a) there is an overpayment of universal credit which occurred as a consequence of an error relating to the amount of a person’s capital; and\n(b) the overpayment period is 3 months or more.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, the Department must, for the purpose only of calculating the recoverable amount of that overpayment—\n(a) at the end of the first 3 months of the overpayment period, treat the amount of that capital as having been reduced by the amount of universal credit overpaid during those 3 months;\n(b) at the end of each subsequent period of 3 months, if any, of the overpayment period, treat the amount of that capital as having been further reduced by the amount of universal credit overpaid during the immediately preceding 3 months.\n(3) Capital is not to be treated as reduced over any period other than 3 months in any circumstances other than those for which paragraph (2) provides.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 comes into operation in accordance with reg. 1(3), see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/224/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:32:12.628725+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."
}