Chapter 53: Overpayments

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Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2022/23

This chapter covers:

1. Introduction (here)

2. Overpayments that are always recoverable (here)

3. Overpayments that are sometimes recoverable (here)

4. Recovery of overpaid benefit (here)

5. Overpayments of housing benefit here

For overpayments of tax credits, see Chapter 64. For overpayments of Scottish social security benefits, see Chapter 78.

References in this chapter to HM Revenue and Customs apply to overpayments of child benefit and guardian’s allowance.

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