Part 4: Social Housing in England Chapter 2: Vacant Higher Value Local Authority Housing Payments to Secretary of State by Local Housing Authorities Section 75: Set off against repayments under section 69
Where a local authority has made an overpayment, this section enables the Secretary of State to offset the amount which needs to be repaid against another payment the local authority is due to make under this Chapter or against any payment which the authority is due to make under section 11 of the Local Government Act 2003. That section concerns capital receipts from the disposal of housing land.
	This section aims to simplify accounting by reducing the number of payments between the Secretary of State and a local authority, where an overpayment has been made.