The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988

Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable amounts

13.  In calculating the amounts recoverable under Article 54(1) of the Order or regulation 11, where there has been an overpayment of benefit, the adjudicating authority shall deduct—

(a) any amount which has been offset under Part III;

(b) any additional amount of income support which was not payable under the original, or any other, determination, but which should have been determined to be payable—

(i) on the basis of the claim as presented to the adjudicating authority, or

(ii) on the basis of the claim as it would have appeared had the misrepresentation or non-disclosure been remedied before the determination,

but no other deduction shall be made in respect of any other entitlement to benefit which may be, or might have been, determined to exist.