Employees' Social Security Act 1969 · Updated to 1 Oct 2024 · Part III · Benefits
50. Repayment of benefit improperly received
Feedback & supportWhere any person has received any benefit or payment under this Act when he is not lawfully entitled to it, he shall be liable to repay to the Organization the value of the benefit or the amount of such payment, or in the case of his death, his representative shall be liable to repay the same from the assets of the deceased, if any, in his hands.
Where any person has received any benefit or payment under this Act when he is not lawfully entitled to it, and subsequently becomes entitled to other benefits under this Act, the Organization shall recover the value of the benefit or the amount of such payment from that other benefit that he is entitled to.
The value of any benefits received other than cash payments shall be determined by such authority as may be specified in the regulations made in this behalf and the decision of such authority shall be final.
The amount recoverable under this section may be recovered as a debt due to the Organization.
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