# The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017, Regulation 9: Deduction from certain supplementary payments

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Department may, in the case of a person from whom an amount is recoverable, recover the outstanding amount by making deductions from—
(a) such amounts of welfare supplementary payment as are still to be paid in that person’s case, and
(b) in so far as the outstanding amount is not recovered by using the method under sub-paragraph (a), such amounts of housing supplementary payment as are still to be paid in that person’s case.
(1A) In the case of welfare supplementary payment, a deduction under paragraph (1)(a) may, for any period for which it is payable in that person’s case, be made from the amount payable at a percentage rate not exceeding that specified at regulation 11(2)(a) of the Overpayment Regulations and it is for the Department in any given case to decide whether to act under this paragraph or under paragraph (2) or under both.
(2) When acting under paragraph (1) in a case where the outstanding amount is less than the total of the amounts referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) (as the case may be), the Department must may continue to pay the amounts in question until that total is equal to the outstanding amount.
(3) In this regulation “housing supplementary payment” means a payment under Article 137A of the 2015 Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/28/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-9
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