Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1960

Recovery of overpayments of pension by civil proceedings.

23.—Any debt due to the State or the Minister under the Acts or under this Act in respect of payments of pensions to persons at times when they were not entitled to receive them or payments of pensions to persons of amounts in excess of the amounts which they were entitled to receive may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered by the Minister as a simple contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction.