{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988/schedule/paragraph-wrapper30",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Sweden) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/wrapper30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 26",
  "text": "(1) Where a competent institution of one State has made an advance payment of any benefit for any period, any arrears of a corresponding benefit which become payable for the same period under the legislation of the other State may be withheld, provided that the amount so withheld shall not exceed the amount of the advance payment. Where a competent institution of one State has overpaid a benefit for any period for which a competent institution of the other State afterwards becomes liable to pay a corresponding benefit, the overpayment shall be regarded, for the purposes of the first sentence of this paragraph, as an advance payment.\n(2) Where a person has received social assistance under the legislation of one State for a period for which that person subsequently becomes entitled to any benefit under the legislation of the other State, the competent institution of the latter State, at the request of and on behalf of the competent institution of the former State, shall withhold from the benefit due for that period the amount by which the social assistance paid exceeded what would have been paid, had the benefit under the legislation of the latter State been paid before the amount of social assistance was determined, and shall transfer the amount withheld to the competent institution of the former State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/590/schedule/paragraph/wrapper30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:50.366990+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."
}