wage overpayment

[Jessbess]

Hello, I am looking for some assistance regarding an invoice I have recently recived for return �423.27 of salary paid to me in July last year.

The accidental overpayment was in no way any fault of mine and did not, for example, result from any misinformation or laxity on my part. It has been mentioned that the Trust believe I handed in my notice short of the notice period required, but it has now been confirmed this is not the case, and I never recieved a final pay slip.

At the time I received my final payment it did not seem to me to be an overpayment because I assumed that backpay resulting from Agenda for Change, which had just been completed, had been added together with any cash due in lieu of my annual leave entitlement.

As all this happened a year ago any overpayment has been absorbed into my accounts and spent long ago. I am looking for advice if anyone has had a similar situation, and how it has been resolved? They want me to beging monthly payments soon, but I don't feel I should have to.

Thanks

Jess

[factor-fiction]

Yes, you are not entitled to keep the money. There are lots of similar examples here on Answerbank.

If the company had underpaid you without you noticing initially you would expect to get the money back once the mistake comes to light. Similarly if I made a mistake - for example if I made a cheque out for �100 instead of �10 when paying for goods- I would expect to get the overpayment back from the shop.

The company is being fair by allowing you to repay it in instalments. The best you can hope for is to negotiate to pay it back over a longer period.

[buildersmate]

To start this, are you satisfied that their calculation is correct and hence in your own mind, this money was overpaid to you?

[Skyline D]

If it is indisputably an overpayment then, yes, you have to repay it.

Just as you do if the bank accidentally credits money that isn't yours to your bank account.

[R1Geezer]

You have to repay it, you are lucky they are letting you pay by instalments.

If you left your wallet in my kitchen should I be allowed to keep it? It amazes me how many people cannot do joined up thinking in this area, it gets asked all the time here.