The former double Oscar winning actress had claimed £8,850 to cover the cost of the publication which was called First Magazine.
Ms Jackson agreed to pay back the money because the publication carried a reference to the Labour Party in breach of the rules.
The MP last night said she had not proof read the document properly when the document was first produced and had missed the single reference to the Labour Party at the end of the magazine.
"I failed to proof read a line at the very end of the document which mentioned the party and I have paid back the money."
Several of Ms Jackson's other claims relate to payments to the Labour Party.
In March 2006 she claimed £7,500 in office expenses from the taxpayer to pay her local party for the "provision of constituency services during 2006".
The payment, which was claimed on her Incidental Expenditure Provision (IEP) covered the cost of "constituency contacts, office facilities, member's surgery support, administration and the downloading of the electoral register".
The payment was made to Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party.
Ms Jackson claimed £7,500 for similar services the following year and £1,500 to cover the costs of services provided by her local party in 2005.
Both these payments were made to the Hampstead and Highgate party.
Ms Jackson insisted the arrangements were perfectly proper and that money had been paid for services offered. She said that the new arrangements had been put in place in recent weeks.
She said she was now sharing the cost of a constituency worker with her local party and that direct payments to the Labour Party were unlikely in future.
Ms Jackson, 73, has also made several claims for money to cover the cost of a subscription to Computing for Labour which is run from the party's HQ and exists to provide technological tools and support.
She made three separate claims for £50 to cover the cost of her subscription to CLF.
The MP on Saturday night said the payments were for valuable IT support.
Analysis by The Sunday Telegraph shows that the former star of Women In Love, Sunday Bloody Sunday and A Touch of Class is one of the MPs who offers least value for money.
Although she turned up for only 27 per cent of votes, spoke in only two debates and did not ask any parliamentary questions in 2007-8, she claimed a total of £136,793 in allowances, to cover travel, home, office and staffing costs.
Our analysis was based on a House of Commons breakdown of how much each of the UK's 646 MPs claimed in expenses, their attendance, voting and speaking record.
The MP said she did not think sitting in the chamber waiting to be called was the best use of her time. She remained busy in both the House of Commons and the constituency.
Miss Jackson is not the first Labour MP who has claimed expenses so that public money can be paid to the Labour Party.
Last week it emerged that David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, John Hutton, the Business Secretary and Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary paid tens of thousands of pounds worth of rent to their local Labour party.
More than six Cabinet Ministers have paid more than £2,700 to Computing for Labour.
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