The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

Recovery of excess benefit from prescribed benefits

90.—(1) For the purposes of section 76(3)(c) of the Administration Act (deduction of excess council tax benefit from prescribed benefits), the benefits prescribed by this regulation are—

(a) any benefit payable under the Act, except guardian’s allowance or housing benefit;

(b) any benefit payable under the legislation of any member State, other than the United Kingdom, concerning the branches of social security mentioned in article 4(1) of Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71(1) on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community, whether or not the benefit has been acquired by virtue of the provisions of that Regulation;

(c) a jobseeker’s allowance;

(d) state pension credit.

(2) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that—

(a) recoverable excess benefit has been allowed in consequence of a misrepresentation of or failure to disclose a material fact (in either case whether fraudulent or otherwise), by a claimant or any other person to whom council tax benefit has been allowed; and

(b) the person who misrepresented that fact or failed to disclose it is receiving a sufficient amount of one or more of the benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) to enable deductions to be made for the recovery of the excess,

he shall if requested to do so by a relevant authority under regulation 86 (methods of recovery) recover the excess by deduction from any of those benefits.

(1)

O.J. No. L149, 5.7.1971; Regulations No. 1408/71 and No. 574/72 were restated in amended form in Regulation No. 2001/83 (O.J. No. L230, 22.8.1983), and further amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1661/85 (O.J. No. L160, 20.6.1985) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 513/86 (O.J. No. L51, 28.2.1986).