Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In any case where income support is overpaid, the department officials make attempts to recover any overpayment. This situation, though, is one which the payments were issued as a result of the change in the regulation, but the regulation was not registered. The payments that were given to individuals match the schedule. Nobody was overpaid or underpaid according to the schedule. The problem is that the schedule was not registered, so there was no legal basis for having made the changes to the payments that we made. Some people received more than they would have before the regulations were changed, some people received less. It was just that the whole system was changed and we did not manage to register the changes to the regulations. The changes did not have the effect of law but nobody was paid anything different than what the schedules called for.
Charles Dent on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on December 8th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
December 8th, 1998
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