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(1)Where—
(a)a payment by way of prescribed income is made after the date which is the prescribed date in relation to the payment; and
(b)it is determined that an amount which has been paid by way of income support [F1, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit] would not have been paid if the payment had been made on the prescribed date,
the Department shall be entitled to recover that amount from the person to whom it was paid.
(2)Where—
(a)a prescribed payment which apart from this subsection falls to be made from public funds in the United Kingdom or under the law of any other member State is not made on or before the date which is the prescribed date in relation to the payment; and
(b)it is determined that an amount (“the relevant amount”) has been paid by way of income support [F2, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit] that would not have been paid if the payment mentioned in paragraph (a) above had been made on the prescribed date,
then—
(i)in the case of a payment from public funds in the United Kingdom, the authority responsible for making it may abate it by the relevant amount; and
(ii)in the case of any other payment, the Department shall be entitled to receive the relevant amount out of the payment.
(3)Where—
(a)a person (in this subsection referred to as A) is entitled to any prescribed benefit for any period in respect of another person (in this subsection referred to as B); and
(b)either—
(i)B has received income support [F3or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance] for that period; or
(ii)B was, during that period, a member of the same family as some person other than A who received income support [F3or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance] for that period; and
(c)the amount of the income support [F3or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance] has been determined on the basis that A has not made payments for the maintenance of B at a rate equal to or exceeding the amount of the prescribed benefit,
the amount of the prescribed benefit may, at the discretion of the authority administering it, be abated by the amount by which the amounts paid by way of income support [F3or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance] exceed what it is determined that they would have been had A, at the time the amount of the income support [F3or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance] was determined, been making payments for the maintenance of B at a rate equal to the amount of the prescribed benefit.
(4)Where an amount could have been recovered by abatement by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) above but has not been so recovered, the Department may recover it otherwise than by way of abatement—
(a)in the case of an amount which could have been recovered by virtue of subsection (2) above, from the person to whom it was paid; and
(b)in the case of an amount which could have been recovered by virtue of subsection (3) above, from the person to whom the prescribed benefit in question was paid.
(5)Where a payment is made in a currency other than sterling, its value in sterling shall be determined for the purposes of this section in accordance with regulations.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 72(1)(b) substituted (2.12.2002 for certain purposes, 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force) by State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14), ss. 14, 21(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(a); S.R. 2002/366, art. 2; S.R. 2003/373, art. 2
F2Words in s. 72(2)(b) substituted (2.12.2002 for specified purposes, 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force) by State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14), ss. 14, 21(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(b); S.R. 2002/366, art. 2; S.R. 2003/373, art. 2
F3Words in s. 72(1)(b)(2)(b)(3) inserted (17.7.1996) by S.I. 1995/2705, art. 40(1), Sch. 2 para. 33; S.R. 1996/285, art. 2, Sch.
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