---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.543"
title: "20"
number: "416.543"
heading: "Underpayments—applied to reduce overpayments."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.543"
---

# §416.543. Underpayments—applied to reduce overpayments.


We apply any underpayment due an individual to reduce any overpayment to that individual that we determine to exist (see [§ 416.558](/cfr/20/416.558.md)) for a different period, unless we have waived recovery of the overpayment under the provisions of [§§ 416.550 through 416.556](/cfr/20/416.550..416.556.md). Similarly, when an underpaid recipient dies, we first apply any amounts due the deceased recipient that would be payable to a survivor under [§ 416.542(b)](/cfr/20/416.542.md?p=b) against any overpayment to the survivor unless we have waived recovery of such overpayment under the provisions of [§§ 416.550 through 416.556](/cfr/20/416.550..416.556.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 52913, Oct. 13, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1147, 1601, 1602, 1611(c) and (e), and 1631(a)-(d) and (g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1320b-17, 1381, 1381a, 1382(c) and (e), and 1383(a)-(d) and (g)); 31 U.S.C. 3716; 31 U.S.C. 3720A.

### Amendments

[58 FR 52913, Oct. 13, 1993]