Part 2Social security etc

Chapter 4Overpayments: recovery and enforcement

99Recovery of costs

(1)

The Social Security Administration Act 1992 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 71ZE, omit subsection (3).

(3)

After section 80F (inserted by section 98 of this Act) insert—

“80GRecovery of costs

Any costs which the Secretary of State reasonably incurs in recovering an amount that is recoverable under any provision of sections 71 to 80, Schedule 3ZA or Schedule 3ZB may be recovered by the Secretary of State as if they were amounts recoverable under that provision.”