UK Statutory Instrument 1988 United Kingdom

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

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2 compliance obligations

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s.022

Effect of deduction notice

  • Deduct half of excess earnings above protected amount under deduction notice
s.027

Duties and liabilities of employers

  • Record deductions, report to DWP, and return deduction notices
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s.001

Citation, commencement and interpretation

s.002

Making of interim payments

s.003

Bringing interim payments into account

s.004

Recovery of overpaid interim payments

s.005

Offsetting prior payment against subsequent award

s.006

Exception from offset of recoverable overpayment

s.007

Duplication and prescribed income

s.008

Duplication and prescribed payments

s.009

Duplication and maintenance payments

s.010

Conversion of payments made in a foreign currency

s.011

Recovery of overpayments by automated or other direct credit transfer

s.012

Circumstances in which determination need not be revised

s.013

Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable amounts

s.014

Quarterly diminution of capital

s.015

Recovery by deduction from prescribed benefits

s.016

Limitations on deductions from prescribed benefits

s.017

Recovery from couples

s.018

Recovery by deductions from earnings

s.019

Award and protected earnings

s.020

Service and contents of deduction notices

s.021

Period for which deduction notice has effect

s.023

Increase of amount of award on appeal or review

s.024

Review of determination of protected earnings

s.025

Power to serve further deduction notice on resumption of employment

s.026

Right of Secretary of State to recover direct from claimant

s.028

Claimants to give notice of cessation or resumption of employment

s.029

Failure to notify

s.029

Recovery by deduction from earnings: other cases

s.030

Revocation

s.031

Transitional provisions

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