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Ex-employer Overpaid Me Says I Owe It Back and Has Given Me Ultimatum of 5 Days

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  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    AP007 wrote: »
    If your monthly pay was £1000 every month you for sure aren't entitled to £1,000,000 if get that in error and I have not said pay it back I have said ask for the breakdown and a negative payslip

    They need the breakdown in gross and the net paid etc

    But we are back to the good old question 'how do people NOT know they are being over paid'? I will never understand that!
    Even so, the onus of proof is on the employer. At £1000000 the case is so easy it is not helpful. Where it gets difficult is the part time cleaner overpaid £10/month over 3 years - allegedly.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Even so, the onus of proof is on the employer. At £1000000 the case is so easy it is not helpful. Where it gets difficult is the part time cleaner overpaid £10/month over 3 years - allegedly.
    You should know your pay and what you are expecting the penny

    Either way if they prove the OP has been overpaid and they do not give it back then all I can say is good luck
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  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    AP007 wrote: »
    You should know your pay and what you are expecting the penny
    Statute Law? Case law? Biblical authority? Something Ghandi said? Link to advice pages in the Daily Mail?
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Statute Law? Case law? Biblical authority? Something Ghandi said? Link to advice pages in the Daily Mail?
    What? You mean to tell me you have no idea what you get paid? I could tell you if I was 1p missing in my pay (which I never was) as I used to check it every time I got paid BEFORE I got my payslip.

    What are you on about? Daily mail?

    If you get more £ in the bank than expected I don't see how anyone can not notice!
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  • dacouch
    dacouch Posts: 21,636 Forumite
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    AP007 wrote: »
    What? You mean to tell me you have no idea what you get paid? I could tell you if I was 1p missing in my pay (which I never was) as I used to check it every time I got paid BEFORE I got my payslip.

    What are you on about? Daily mail?

    If you get more £ in the bank than expected I don't see how anyone can not notice!

    I was impressed until I realised you were head of payroll
  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    dacouch wrote: »
    I was impressed until I realised you were head of payroll
    I am what? I don't work in payroll.
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  • Lith
    Lith Posts: 897 Forumite
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    Cheeky b/\stards.... i would of just ignored them, any letters you get can just be sent back to them.

    ive had this problem before being 'overpaid' - well thats what they said... i just ignored them, and that was 4 years ago.


    you worked for them you get paid i seriously think they could be pulling a fast one.
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  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,414 Forumite
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    Yep, definitely get a breakdown of it and also ask for a payslip allowing for this - you paid tax and NI on that too so it should not be the full £1000 you need to repay. You should also be able to ask for time to pay it back.
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • philip1988
    philip1988 Posts: 168 Forumite
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    AP007 wrote: »
    You should know your pay and what you are expecting the penny

    I agree that you should have a good idea what your monthly pay should be, however as the OP said in their first post their wages varied each month due to over time etc making it more difficult to check without doing the calculations.
  • scooby088
    scooby088 Posts: 3,385 Forumite
    This is the reason why I keep all my payslips to save any problems with an employer saying I was over paid.
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