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Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Lump Sum Payments) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1596) Commence 1 October 2008. Provide for the application and modification of the Social Securit y (Recover y of Benefit) Act 1997, enabling the recovery of lump sum payments from civil compensation paid in respect of the same disease. The Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 provides for benefits to be recovered from compensators, where the compensator pays civil compensation to a person in respect of an accident, injury or disease and that person has also received a listed benefit, paid as a consequence of the same accident, injury or disease.