PART XIEXCESS BENEFITS

Person from whom recovery may be sought86

1

Subject to paragraph (2) recoverable excess benefits shall be due from the claimant or the person to whom the excess benefits were allowed.

2

Where recoverable excess benefits are allowed to a claimant who has one or more partners, recovery of the excess may be made by deduction from any community charge benefits allowed to a partner, provided that the claimant and that partner were members of the same household both at the time that the excess benefits are allowed and when the deduction is made.