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5.—(1) The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 82 (person from whom recovery may be sought)—
(a)for paragraph (2)(1) substitute—
“(2) For the purposes of section 75(3)(b) of the Administration Act (recovery from such other person, as well as or instead of the person to whom the overpayment was made), where recovery of an overpayment is sought by a relevant authority—
(a)subject to paragraph (1) and where sub-paragraph (b) or (c) does not apply, the overpayment is recoverable from the claimant as well as the person to whom the payment was made, if different;
(b)in a case where an overpayment arose in consequence of a misrepresentation of or a failure to disclose a material fact (in either case, whether fraudulently or otherwise) by or on behalf of the claimant, or by or on behalf of any person to whom the payment was made, the overpayment is only recoverable from any person who misrepresented or failed to disclose that material fact instead of, if different, the person to whom the payment was made; or
(c)in a case where an overpayment arose in consequence of an official error where the claimant, or a person acting on the claimant’s behalf, or any person to whom the payment was paid, or any person acting on their behalf, could reasonably have been expected, at the time of receipt of the payment or of any notice relating to that payment, to realise that it was an overpayment, the overpayment is only recoverable from any such person instead of, if different, the person to whom the payment was made.”;
(b)in paragraph (3A)(2) for “paragraph (2)(a)(ii)” substitute “paragraph (2)(c)”; and
(c)omit paragraph (4)(3).
(3) In regulation 83(4) (method of recovery)—
(a)in paragraph (1) for “regulation 86” substitute “regulation 86(1)”;
(b)after paragraph (1) insert—
“(1ZA) Where an overpayment is recoverable from a claimant who has one or more partners, a relevant authority may recover the overpayment by deduction from any housing benefit payable to the claimant’s partner, or where it is unable to do so, may request the Secretary of State to recover any recoverable overpayment from the benefits prescribed in regulation 86(1B) (recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits), provided that the claimant and that partner were a couple both at the time of the overpayment and when the deduction is made.”;
(c)in paragraph (2)—
(i)after “permitted by paragraph (1)” insert “or (1ZA)”; and
(ii)after “a claimant” insert “or a claimant’s partner”; and
(d)in paragraph (3) for “who has” substitute “or a claimant’s partner, where the claimant has”.
(4) In regulation 86(5) (recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits)—
(a)in paragraph (1) before “For the purposes of section 75(4) of the Administration Act” insert “Subject to paragraph (1B),”;
(b)after paragraph (1A) insert—
“(1B) For the purposes of section 75(4) of the Administration Act, where recovery is sought from the claimant’s partner under regulation 83(1ZA), the benefits prescribed by this regulation are—
(a)income support under Part 7 of the Act;
(b)income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
(c)state pension credit; and
(d)income-related employment and support allowance.”; and
(c)for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) The Secretary of State shall, if requested to do so by an authority under regulation 83 (method of recovery), recover a recoverable overpayment by deduction from any of the benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) or (in the case of the claimant’s partner) any of the benefits prescribed in paragraph (1B) provided that the Secretary of State is satisfied that—
(a)a recoverable overpayment has been made in consequence of a misrepresentation of or a failure to disclose a material fact (in either case whether fraudulently or otherwise), by a claimant or any other person to whom a payment of housing benefit has been made; and
(b)the person from whom it is sought to recover the overpayment is receiving sufficient amounts of any of the benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) or (1B) (as the case may be) to enable deductions to be made for the recovery of the overpayment.”.
Paragraph (2) was substituted by S.I. 2005/2904, as amended by S.I. 2006/217.
Paragraph (3A) was inserted by S.I. 2005/2904, as amended by S.I. 2006/217.
Paragraph (4) was amended by S.I. 2005/2904, as amended by S.I. 2006/217.
Regulation 83 was amended by S.I. 2005/2904, as amended by S.I. 2006/217.
Regulation 86 was amended by S.I. 2005/2904, as amended by S.I. 2006/217, and S.I. 2008/1082.
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