SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 7Set-off of Overpayments.
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Regulations may provide for treating benefit paid to one person in respect of another as being a child of the family, or the wife or husband, or an adult dependant, of the first-mentioned person as having been properly paid for any period notwithstanding that under regulations relating to overlapping benefits it is not payable for that period by reason of a subsequent decision either—
a
that the said other person is himself entitled to benefit for that period ; or
b
that a third person is entitled to benefit for that period in respect of the said other person in priority to the first-mentioned person,
and for reducing or withholding accordingly any arrears payable for that period by virtue of the subsequent decision.