Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Implementation date: 18 March 2005

The Regulations amend the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 to provide for an interim payment where it is impractical to satisfy national insurance number requirements, the recovery of duplicate payments of benefit from payments of contribution-based jobseeker's allowance, the recovery of overpayments without prior revision of the original decision awarding benefit, and clarification of the limitations in the right to deduct recoverable overpayments from prescribed benefits. The Regulations can be viewed on the OPSI website.