In case of an overpayment by the digital music provider, the mechanical licensing collective shall provide a credit to the account of the digital music provider.
In case of an overpayment by the mechanical licensing collective, the mechanical licensing collective may debit the account of the auditing copyright owner or owners for such overpaid amounts, or such owner or owners shall refund overpaid amounts to the mechanical licensing collective, as appropriate.
In the case of an overpayment, he added, "We expect that to be repaid in full".
The debt, as of September , 1984 was eight times the amount owed Social Security in fiscal 1978, and represented 1.4 million cases of overpayment.
There were also many cases of overpayments to suppliers, often through dubious intermediaries, he added.
The charity said its bureaux have to deal with thousands of cases of overpayments caused by mistakes at the Revenue, or as a result of the taxman failing to respond when families tell them of changes to their circumstances.
In one case, the overpayment ran to more than £70,000.
Our results provide no support for the view that the failure to actively search for work has been a cause of overpayment in the UI system.
"In the case of Universal Credit, it will be open to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to charge a civil penalty if they think that the overpayment came about as a result of negligence by the claimant," warns Mr Williamson.
