Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005

• Permanent Page URL

Recovery of overpayments.

21.—The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 177(1) (as amended by section 37 of the Act of 2001), by substituting “Subject to section 281(6), the amount of supplementary welfare allowance” for “The amount of supplementary welfare allowance”,

(b) by substituting the following for subsection (6) (as amended by section 20 of the Act of 1998) of section 281:

“(6) Any benefit, assistance, supplement or payment repayable in accordance with section 278, 279, 279A or 279B may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered by deduction, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that shall be prescribed, from any benefit, assistance, supplement or payment to which the person concerned is or becomes entitled.”,

and

(c) in section 282 (as amended by section 30 of the Act of 1999)—

(i) by deleting “(other than supplementary welfare allowance determined by a health board)”, and

(ii) by substituting “subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that shall be prescribed” for “in accordance with such code of practice as shall be prescribed”.