Section 71ZF — Welfare Reform Act 2012: Adjustment of benefit

Adjustment of benefit 71ZF Regulations may for the purpose of the recovery of amounts recoverable under section 71ZB make provision—

a for treating any amount paid to a person under an award which it is subsequently determined was not payable—

i as properly paid, or ii as paid on account of a payment which it is determined should be or should have been made, and for reducing or withholding arrears payable by virtue of the subsequent determination;

b for treating any amount paid to one person in respect of another as properly paid for any period for which it is not payable in cases where in consequence of a subsequent determination—

i the other person is entitled to a payment for that period, or ii a third person is entitled in priority to the payee to a payment for that period in respect of the other person, and by reducing or withholding any arrears payable for that period by virtue of the subsequent determination.