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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1987/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/491",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Recovery from couples",
  "text": "In the case of an overpayment of supplementary benefit or family income supplement in respect of a married or unmarried couple, the amount recoverable by deduction, in accordance with regulation 16, may be recovered by deduction from supplementary benefit or family income supplement payable to either of them, provided that the two of them are a married or unmarried couple at the date of the deduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/491/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:18.490674+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."
}