Recovery of overpaid housing benefit
Language: English Series: Times ; 17/11/87 p44Publication details: 1987Subject(s): Summary: In Regina v Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Ex Parte Smith QB 6 November 1987 it was held that where a housing authority recovered from the applicant as overpayment part of the housing benefit he has previously received, regulation 34 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (SI 1985:677) must inevitably be construed to have retrospective effects at least to the extent that it enabled the authority to determine that there had been an excess rebate given since some past change of circumstance.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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In Regina v Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Ex Parte Smith QB 6 November 1987 it was held that where a housing authority recovered from the applicant as overpayment part of the housing benefit he has previously received, regulation 34 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (SI 1985:677) must inevitably be construed to have retrospective effects at least to the extent that it enabled the authority to determine that there had been an excess rebate given since some past change of circumstance.