Overpaid by previous employer, should I have to pay it back ?

Austinhead

hermum wrote: »

Yes for some things my costs would have been 1/3 of yours but rent, heat, electricity, ct (rates in those days), water would have been the same or very similar.

Sorry, I meant 1/3 of the costs at Christmas and Birthdays.

My kids did not have a pile of expensive presents, far from it, and they were only allowed to put 3 presents on their list from santa.

Sambucus_Nigra

lucylucky wrote: »

It is time the OP stopped clinging to stupid excuses and started to deal with the problem at hand.

Which is what?

lucylucky

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Which is what?

Dealing with the issue is contacting the council and agreeing a repayment plan if at all possible, as has been suggested by myself and other posters before.

Tankrizzo_2

Austinhead wrote: »

Just out of interest, and I mean this as a serious question. Given I had 2 kids birthdays and Christmas and no money to buy any presents, what would you have done?. My kids were 2, 5 and 7 at the time and all believe in father christmas. If I hadn't used some of the money paid by mistake, they literally wouldn't have had anything. Incidentally I did not spend £2000 on presents, or anywhere close.

It does not matter what you spent the money on. You still spent two grand of someone else's money.

Stop trying to justify it by tugging on our heartstrings.

Sambucus_Nigra

lucylucky wrote: »

Dealing with the issue is contacting the council and agreeing a repayment plan if at all possible, as has been suggested by myself and other posters before.

Or letting them take her to court, as has been suggested by myself and other posters before.

SueC_2

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Or letting them take her to court, as has been suggested by myself and other posters before.

Isn't the OP in enough of a financial predicament without adding a CCJ to the list of things working against her?

GothicStirling

SueC wrote: »

Isn't the OP in enough of a financial predicament without adding a CCJ to the list of things working against her?

Well it would be better for her to own up, than the council finding the OP's ISP and find all this incriminating evidence she's posted.

SHIPSHAPE

SueC wrote: »

Isn't the OP in enough of a financial predicament without adding a CCJ to the list of things working against her?

They would have to get a CCJ first AND for her not to pay it for that to work against her.

They may feel it more prudent to just let it go should the poster just say no she isn't paying it back before legalities.

Sambucus_Nigra

GothicStirling wrote: »

Well it would be better for her to own up, than the council finding the OP's ISP and find all this incriminating evidence she's posted.

Own up?

To what exactly?

GothicStirling

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Own up?

To what exactly?

I think you just answered your own question.