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Return of overpaid wages

mrsbunny1979 · 2016-10-10 20:43:42

I left one organisation on 4th September and started working at another on 5th September. The first organisation did not receive my notification of change form until the end of September (my manager did not send it in for some reason) so I was paid for the whole of September by mistake. I knew it had happened, I put the…

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Kynthia Posts: 5,692 Forumite

11 October 2016 at 7:28PM

Repayments are fine if you couldn't have known you were being overpaid and had spent the money or if you were overpaid over time such as getting an allowance you weren't entitled to in your salary payment fir a tear or two. However a one off lump sum that you were aware of from the start should be able to be repaid in a lump sum and would be difficult to argue otherwise.

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