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Overpayment - can they reclaim?
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Your employer can only make deductions from your wages in limited circumstances. They can deduct tax and national insurance (NI) and they can also make other deductions for which they have previously got your written consent or which are allowed in your contract of employment. (Different rules apply for shop workers).
An exception to the rule that consent is needed to make a deduction is where there has been an overpayment of wages (or some other payments, for example, expenses). In law, the employer can recover these through a deduction of your wages even if this is without your agreement. However, if your employer gave the impression that the wages were correct at the time they were paid, you did not know that you had been overpaid and you have spent the money (and to pay it back would put you in a worse financial position than if the overpayment had not been made) you should argue that you should not have to repay the money.
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