Work overpaid me by a couple of hundred when i left

Mrs_Sparkle

Please read this http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/announcement.html?f=76 before making any more posts. And I'm not going to respond to your last post so you're wasting your time trying to get an argument out of me.

wifeforlife

Mrs_Sparkle wrote:

Do you think? Seems a bit odd anyway

Yes I think I'm right, lets leave this thread well alone and get it locked

Cath

teapot2

- just read through it - good idea

bikertim

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Originally Posted by CLAPTON
what course are you doing and where?...i'm surprised that if you're receiving bursaries and income from parents that you need to be 15,000 in debt at the end of your course.
maybe you should consider posting your SOA here and people will help you mange your spending.

clapton please stick to the topic mate.
tuition fee 3 grand, accomodation 2 n a half grand, grant £400, bursary £150
Maybe take your own advice and stick to the topic.If you want advice you will get it but dont abuse people.Maybe its a bit late and the cheap ciders taking effect:beer: it is Saturday after all

Kaminari_2

remind me never to hire you! What awful morals.

There are a lot of people in debt/students/in need of extra cash, it is still no excuse and does not make you any more deserving of money you haven't earnt it. If you feel you have worked for this money and deserve it then take it, but don't get all stroppy if you ask opinions here and they are not what you want to hear. I'm sorry we do not give you justification for keeping it, as it is the justification you wanted when you posted here.

What goes around comes around. It is all Karma! Good luck!

I_was_a_fool

flaminglee50 wrote:

What are you doing wasting your money on the internet if your in 22 grands woth of debt.
Shouldnt you be out working, not wasting ur money and time picking on younger people.
Sort your problems out first.

I just want to say that I am INCREDIBLY grateful to people such as Mrs Sparkle, who take the time & trouble to post advice on this board, they have turned my life around and no doubt helped countless others. I know this thread has gone a bit silly, but dont want others to be put off posting!

Mrs_Sparkle

I_was_a_fool wrote:

I just want to say that I am INCREDIBLY grateful to people such as Mrs Sparkle, who take the time & trouble to post advice on this board, they have turned my life around and no doubt helped countless others. I know this thread has gone a bit silly, but dont want others to be put off posting!

Aw thanks hun! I just wish I'd found this board years ago. I've also had excellent advice on here which helps me enormously. The moral support is fantastic too so newbies shouldn't be scared to post.

flaminglee50

Kaminari wrote:

remind me never to hire you! What awful morals.

There are a lot of people in debt/students/in need of extra cash, it is still no excuse and does not make you any more deserving of money you haven't earnt it. If you feel you have worked for this money and deserve it then take it, but don't get all stroppy if you ask opinions here and they are not what you want to hear. I'm sorry we do not give you justification for keeping it, as it is the justification you wanted when you posted here.

What goes around comes around. It is all Karma! Good luck!

I cannot believe i am hearing this. I have listened to what everybody has said and let people know of the new things i have found out and then mr sparkle comes along and picks on me. Then you have a go at me for defending myself. This is rediculous.

AndyR_3

I believe that the legal term for this type of payment is a payment by "mistake of fact" and it can be recovered. I work in banking and see this kind of thing happen quite often, whether a customer makes an error and pays someone incorrectly, or a customer is paid incorrectly, or the bank makes an error and credits an account incorrectly. Regardless, legally the money has to be repaid, and the bank have in the past taken people to court and won. I am not aware of any cases where the bank have made an error and the customer has been allowed to keep the money, except where it was a very small amount so taking recovery action was not worthwhile.

Remember if they do go to court, you could end up with a CCJ.

If you thought you were using your overdraft, and were happy to do so (I presume it's interest free on a student account?) then just repay the funds using the money that you would have otherwise have spent from your overdraft. If they'll take installments, stick it in the best paying cash ISA you can in the mean time and profit from the interest.

As an aside, if you did keep the money, you would actually be stealing it from local council tax payers...

jayne.doe

Im just amazed at how rude the poster is. My daughter is also at uni she will leave with loads of debt, she receives no bursaries, only the money we give her. She had to take the full grant and will be around 21,000 pounds in debt. However if she owed money i would expect her to pay it back regardless of fault right is right.

To insult someone who is in debt and dealing with it (mrs sparkle) amazed me unlike the poster this is someone paying back what they owe. They certainly have my respect and show the young man what integrity and honour is all about. Something unfortunately flaming you have to yet learn. This is not having a `go` at you, you asked for opinions, you just didnt like what you heard, after that you became rather abusive .