Clause 27 - Overpayments
Tax Credits Bill
5:00 pm
Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to take amendment No. 68, in page 18, line 45, at end insert—
'(2A) For the purpose of subsection (1) above, an excess is only recoverable if it is determined that, whether fraudulently or otherwise, any person has misrepresented, or failed to disclose, any material fact, and in consequence of the misrepresentation or failure an excess was paid.'.