The Social Security (Philippines) Order 1989

Section 5 recovery of advance payments and overpayments of benefit

ARTICLE 17

(1) Where a competent institution of one Party has made a payment of any benefit to a person for any period in advance of the period to which it relates or has paid him any benefit for a period, whether by virtue of the provisions of this Convention, or otherwise, and the insurance authority of the other Party afterwards decides that the person is entitled to benefit for that period under its legislation, the competent institution of the latter Party, at the request of the competent institution of the former Party, shall deduct from the benefit due for that period under its legislation any overpayment which, by virtue of the provisions of this Convention, results from the advance payment of benefit paid by the competent institution of the former Party and shall transmit this sum to the competent institution of the former Party.

(2) Where a person has received supplementary benefit under the legislation of the United Kingdom for a period for which that person subsequently becomes entitled to any benefit under the legislation of the Philippines, the competent institution of the Philippines, at the request of and on behalf of the competent institution of the United Kingdom, shall withhold from the benefit due for that period the amount by which the supplementary benefit paid exceeded what would have been paid had the benefit under the legislation of the Philippines been paid before the amount of supplementary benefit was determined, and shall transfer the amount withheld to the competent institution of the United Kingdom.