Paid 10 months after leaving company

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Arrange to repay over whatever is affordable to you, before you have the possible embarrassment of Attachment of Earnings arrive, which could be detrimental to your career.
I didn't like that the DWP overpaid but it hasn't made me entitled to never pay.
The Attachment of Earnings landed quicker then I could cope with - don't let it happen to you.

Dox

Deleted User said:

Arrange to repay over whatever is affordable to you, before you have the possible embarrassment of Attachment of Earnings arrive, which could be detrimental to your career.
I didn't like that the DWP overpaid but it hasn't made me entitled to never pay.
The Attachment of Earnings landed quicker then I could cope with - don't let it happen to you.

As OP has only just received the money and knows they aren't entitled to it, they need to repay it all now. Affordability is totally irrelevant.

KatrinaWaves

Deleted User said:

Arrange to repay over whatever is affordable to you, before you have the possible embarrassment of Attachment of Earnings arrive, which could be detrimental to your career.
I didn't like that the DWP overpaid but it hasn't made me entitled to never pay.
The Attachment of Earnings landed quicker then I could cope with - don't let it happen to you.

He got it a few days ago, and it’s not money he was expecting! He does not get to ‘pay over what is affordable’ he should not have spent any of it yet and the courts will take that view too! He needs to pay over the full amount, an attachment of earnings is way down the line after a CCJ, court appearances and fees.

Your attachment of earnings is from the DWP who can easily do attachment of earnings. The OP has no right to a payment plan as he knew this wasn‚Äôt his money. It‚Äôs not a case of overpaid benefits or feasibly believing this money was due to them. 

Dox

p675 said:

Silvertabby said:

The money was paid in error and must be returned.  Think about it the other way - if your bank took £X from your account due to a 'glitch' would you just shrug your shoulders and say 'oh well, their money now' or would you expect them to pay it back?

Well if I accidentally bank transferred the money to the ex-employer, I wouldn't have a right to get it back, I believe. I'd just like to keep the money obviously, I didn't have a good experience with this employer at all and we could all do with a bit of extra cash.

Where do you get your beliefs? You'd have a right to get it back.

Wanting to keep the money because you 'didn't have a good experience' is a pathetic excuse for theft. Grow up.

MEM62

p675 said:

Silvertabby said:

The money was paid in error and must be returned.  Think about it the other way - if your bank took £X from your account due to a 'glitch' would you just shrug your shoulders and say 'oh well, their money now' or would you expect them to pay it back?

Well if I accidentally bank transferred the money to the ex-employer, I wouldn't have a right to get it back, I believe. 

The you believe wrongly, of course you would be entitled to it back.  They do not get to profit from your error in the same way that you do not get to profit from theirs.  

p675 said:

Silvertabby said:

The money was paid in error and must be returned.  Think about it the other way - if your bank took £X from your account due to a 'glitch' would you just shrug your shoulders and say 'oh well, their money now' or would you expect them to pay it back?

I didn't have a good experience with this employer at all and we could all do with a bit of extra cash.

If you think that is justification for keeping the money you are wrong.  In fact, there is no justification at all for keeping the money and your ex employer would be within their rights to pursue you through the courts for it's return.     

dranzer01

this has happened to me in mylifetime probably twice from memory - I dont recall paying it back....

KatrinaWaves

dranzer01 said:

this has happened to me in mylifetime probably twice from memory - I dont recall paying it back....

Fantastic anecdote. This happened to me I think probably twice and both times I was made to walk the plank.

Comms69

happened once, emailed; no reply - stuck it into an account, 3 months later they asked for it back. Made like £6

getmore4less

Don't transfer on the basis of a phone call.

Manxman_in_exile

dranzer01 said:

this has happened to me in mylifetime probably twice from memory - I dont recall paying it back....

Your former employer paid you 10 months after you'd left - and this happened twice?!  That's quite a co-incidence because it's happened to the OP here as well.