Redundancy Overpayment

michelle1506

Nice to see that you are listening today.

tizzzr

I work in the private sector, my mgr completed 14yrs and received £5800. Keep it until they come knocking, then plead ignorance, say you imagined it must have been a tax rebate. You never know they may not discover it, they are obviously incompetent. It is disgusting the amount of tax wasted. Good luck!

michelle1506

I don't see how that one is going to wash?? Op received two invoices which presumably must be detailed! They will of course discover it!

tizzzr wrote: »

I work in the private sector, my mgr completed 14yrs and received £5800. Keep it until they come knocking, then plead ignorance, say you imagined it must have been a tax rebate. You never know they may not discover it, they are obviously incompetent. It is disgusting the amount of tax wasted. Good luck!

-BA-

tizzzr wrote: »

I work in the private sector, my mgr completed 14yrs and received £5800. Keep it until they come knocking, then plead ignorance, say you imagined it must have been a tax rebate. You never know they may not discover it, they are obviously incompetent. It is disgusting the amount of tax wasted. Good luck!

No what is disgusting, is knowingly keeping money one isn't entitled to. We aren't after all talking about a couple of hundred pounds.

isplumm

tizzzr wrote: »

I work in the private sector, my mgr completed 14yrs and received £5800. Keep it until they come knocking, then plead ignorance, say you imagined it must have been a tax rebate. You never know they may not discover it, they are obviously incompetent. It is disgusting the amount of tax wasted. Good luck!

So just to clarify - you are saying the OP should keep the money - remember that this is your / my money .... it comes from our taxes.

Mark

stuart30

michelle1506 wrote: »

I think it's called 'theft by credit' or 'theft by finding'. Will be one or the other, and is CERTAINLY NOT JUST A CIVIL MATTER like this daft op seems to think!

If this is real and not a troll, I think it reflects very badly on other public sector workers like myself, who would not dream of keeping the money. 22k is hardly a life changing sum for goodness sake, and not worth the hassle!!

Actually it is just a civil matter...as the OP has not claimed the money nor has proven they have no intention of returning.

And yes i know for a fact (Regards being a civil matter).:o

The woman in the BBC link for £135 is slightly different as she must have acknowledged she had no intention of repaying the money.

But agree its best just too pay it back..cant miss what you never had an all that.

michelle1506

Well that funny, because my 'policeman friend' didn't seem to think so...

stuart30 wrote: »

Actually it is just a civil matter...as the OP has not claimed the money nor has proven they have no intention of returning.

And yes i know for a fact (Regards being a civil matter).:o

The woman in the BBC link for £135 is slightly different as she must have acknowledged she had no intention of repaying the money.

But agree its best just too pay it back..cant miss what you never had an all that.

michelle1506

That might only be a 'civil matter' at the moment as the money has not yet been asked for. There is such as thing as 'theft of credit' suggest you look it up..

hcb42

tizzzr wrote: »

I work in the private sector, my mgr completed 14yrs and received £5800. Keep it until they come knocking, then plead ignorance, say you imagined it must have been a tax rebate. You never know they may not discover it, they are obviously incompetent. It is disgusting the amount of tax wasted. Good luck!

It would be £22K more of tax wasted in the OPs council dept, if he doesn't pay it back!:eek:

I do hope the payroll clerks and person's responsible for signing this off are duly reprimanded once this has come to light. If not, and I was in that borough, I would be asking some strong questions regarding waste

michelle1506

It comes under section 24 of the theft act.