Military Veterans Act, 2011 (Act No. 18 of 2011)

Regulations

Military Veterans Pension Regulations, 2025

5. Recovery of sums overpaid

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(1)If the Agency pays money to a person in reasonable belief that he or she is a bona fide military veteran, widow, widower or dependent and entitled thereto in terms of the Act or any law repealed by the Act , but he or she was not entitled thereof, the amount of money so paid is an amount due and payable to the State by such a person or, if he or she is deceased, by his or her estate.

 

(2)The Agency must recover the amounts to which a person was not entitled, as contemplated in subsection (1), in accordance with the Public Finance Management Act, 1999.

 

(3)The Minister shall remit an amount owing by a person in terms of subsection (1) if such a person satisfies the Minister that he or she received the amount without knowing if he or she was not entitled thereto.