{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1988/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1988/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/664",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Recovery from couples",
  "text": "In the case of an overpayment of income support, or state pension credit, or income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income-related employment and support allowance ... to one of a couple, the amount recoverable by deduction, in accordance with regulation 15, may be recovered by deduction from income support, or state pension credit, or income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income-related employment and support allowance ... payable to either of them, provided that the two of them are a couple at the date of the deduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 24(5), 24(6)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 23(5), 23(6)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 inserted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 52(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 omitted (5.10.1999 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)) by virtue of The Tax Credits (Payments on Account, Overpayments and Recovery) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2571), regs. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 18 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/664/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:40:16.866730+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."
}