PART IV DETERMINATION ... OF BENEFIT RECOUPED

10 Provisions relating to determination of amount paid by way of or paid as on account of benefit
1 Without prejudice to the right of the Secretary of State to recover from an employer the recoupable benefit, an employee on whom a copy of a recoupment notice has been served in accordance with Regulation 8 above may, within 21 days of the date on which such notice was served on him or within such further time as the Secretary of State may for special reasons allow, give notice in writing to the Secretary of State that he does not accept that the amount specified in the recoupment notice in respect of jobseeker’s allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, universal credit or income support is correct.
Words in reg. 10(1)(2) inserted (1.11.2010) by Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2429), regs. 1(2), 5(d)
Words in reg. 10(1)(2) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 50(7)
2 Where an employee has given notice in writing to the Secretary of State under paragraph (1) above that he does not accept that an amount specified in the recoupment notice is correct, the Secretary of State shall make a decision as to the amount of jobseeker’s allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, universal credit or, as the case may be, income support paid in respect of the period to which the prescribed element is attributable or, as appropriate, in respect of so much of the protected period as falls before the date on which the employer complies with Regulation 6 above.
Regs. 10 (2) (3) substituted (29.11.99) by S.I. 1999/3178 , reg. 2, Sch. 14, para. 2.
2A The Secretary of State may revise either upon application made for the purpose or on his own initiative a decision under paragraph (2) above.
2B The employee shall have a right of appeal tothe First-tier Tribunal against a decision of the Secretary of State whether as originally made under paragraph (2) or as revised under paragraph (2A) above.
Words in reg. 10(2B) substituted (3.11.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 73
2C The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 shall apply for the purposes of paragraphs (2A) and (2B) above as though a decision of the Secretary of State under paragraph (2A) above were made under section 9 of the 1998 Act and any appeal from such a decision were made under section 12 of that Act.
2D In this Regulation “the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998.
3 Where the Secretary of State recovers too much money from an employer under these Regulations the Secretary of State shall pay to the employee an amount equal to the excess.
4 In any case where, after the Secretary of State has recovered from an employer any amount by way of recoupment of benefit, the decision given by the industrial tribunal in consequence of which such recoupment took place is set aside or varied on appeal or on a re-hearing by the industrial tribunal, the Secretary of State shall make such repayment to the employer or payment to the employee of the whole or part of the amount recovered as he is satisfied should properly be made having regard to the decision given on appeal or re-hearing.
Words omitted from the heading by para. 1 of Sch. 14 to S.S. 1999/3178 as from 29.11.99.