Overpayment by The Armed Forces

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I have recived a letter today from the MOD saying that the Army has overpayed me by £5,000 following dischage, that they have paid me for an extra 3 months after leaving, I need some advice as this was their mistake and I do not have £5000 to pay them back as I am only earning £120 a week at the moment.
Please can someone help me!!!
Thank you:think:
Please can someone help me!!!
Thank you:think:
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Could you make some agreement to pay it back over a period of time mutually agreeable?.
Tally
If you have some spare time, then you could contact the CAB near you, if not wait for a response from some of the admin type people in the forum.
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Alias_Omega
He was on terminal leave , living at home about 100 miles from his final posting so couldn't just pop in to work to sort it out. He made several phone calls to see what it was for but nobody could tell him what it was for, promised to look into it and would never ring back.....
In the end we put the extra £3000 into an ISA and decided not to touch it just in case they asked for it back. We then forgot about it.
Also, they would not send him a P45 and everytime he rang Innsworth to find out why one hadn't been sent nobody could explain why.
Then about 7 months after this, we had a letter from an agency saying they'd been asked to "Track us Down" as the RAF had been unable to contact us!!! This is ludicrous as we hadn't moved so all they had to do was look on my husbands records! They said we owed £3000 due to an overpayment...
We wrote a 3 page letter explaining the steps we had taken to find out what the overpayments were for, the phone calls about the P45 ( when nobody had mentioned any debt) etc and asked for the debt to be written off. Of course we had a reply saying that it was our fault!!!!
We finally agreed to pay £20 month for the next 12 years. We said we couldn't afford any more and they were fine with that. I wish we'd offered £10 month for 24 years now!!!! As far as I'm concerned it was their fault so they can wait for the money but my husband isn't comfortable about owing money!
If you genuinly can't afford to pay this back then offer a really low amount per month. I think they'll be happy with any agreement.
Hope this helps.
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wow this is Great!
Don't spend it and get in touch with the administrators for whatever service you were in. They will realise eventually and be on your case! Keep copies of letters and get peoples names when you ring.
TheBees
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It can be done if you keep records of your requests etc.
This is different to being paid an allowance when you've checked with the clerk and had written confirmation you should be getting it.
Come up with a reasonable repayment plan with them, and as oscardog says, keep copies of everything you send and receive, plus records of phone calls.