Money in the benefit payment account shall be used solely to pay benefits pursuant to authorized regulations and no other disbursement shall be made therefrom, but amounts erroneously and illegally deposited in such account may be refunded therefrom, except that money credited to this State’s account pursuant to Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, shall be used exclusively as provided in Section 1528.5. The procedure prescribed by such regulations shall be deemed to satisfy and shall be in lieu of any and all statutory requirements not contained in this division of specific appropriation or other form of release by state officers of money in their custody prior to expenditure which might otherwise be applicable to withdrawals from the benefit payment account. Any balance of money withdrawn from the benefit account which remains unclaimed or unpaid in the benefit payment account after the expiration of the period for which such sums were withdrawn shall be considered in preparing subsequent estimates and may be utilized for the payment of benefits during succeeding periods or, in the discretion of the director, shall be redeposited in the benefit account.