Being Overpaid by Work



I told no one, someone whistle blew as it was my full team and we were taken in for a fact find meeting, had to pay it back but played dumb.
 
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Patch said:
I bet you did.

As per the OP, I would just fess up. It's hardly worth risking your livelihood for a couple of hundred quid.
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I did. I run about for these owld women like a carer.
Just came in to a late tea because one of my customers needed a new tele tuning in. No charge.
These old people have no flies on them. £80 to clean the gutters. “Erm while you have the ladders out”
 
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Lexingtongue said:
This just happened to me so I rang up to inform them about it. Bloke on the phone seemed genuinely shocked and praised my honesty. I was a bit surprised by his shocked reaction; surely anyone would come forward about something like this, right?
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Hmmm. Depends who has shortchanged themselves. The level of my honesty would and in fact does depend on any risk to myself.
Only just slightly off topic, i reckon i've been overpaid on an investment. A lot of money. Don't tell anyone.
 
Happened to me 10 years ago two months on the trott.
50p an hour more than I should have got.
1st month said nowt, second month told them.
They thanked me for my honesty and let me keep the extra, worked out about £300
 
I was overpaid at work a few months ago. I informed my manager, who informed accounting, they just told me they would take back out of my pay the next month to make it up.
 
I was once underpaid and got past from pillar to post without it being resolved. Next month they fucked my mileage up (decimal point in the wrong place) which worked out double what I was owed.
If the under payment had been resolved I would have told them.
 
A few of us put overtime and on call forms in while the manager was on holiday. They were supposed to be approved by someone else but no one was paid the overtime. We all complained to the manager who requested the forms again and arranged to be paid by a Bacs payment. All sorted.

Next payday we all got 2 lots of over time, the forms were approved by the stand in but he didn't send the proof until after the cut off so they were processed the next month along with that months overtime. No one said anything.
 
I inform HMRC what tax I should be paying and eventually they send you a revised tax code because I am unfortunate enough to pay the Scottish income tax rates so get overpaid until I put them straight. This will continue unless they reduce the rates to comply with the rest of the UK which of course they wont. February 6th is the Scottish budget so they can emphasize how far behind their economic efficiency has fallen behind the rest of the UK by making the residents in Scotland pay more tax percentage wise than the rest of the UK. I am only being overpaid until the Scottish taxes are applied which then converts to daylight robbery. TBF at least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
 
Not many seeming to realise on here that under current law keeping money you know to have been paid in error is theft.
 
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Raich Carter said:
I started a new job and had only been at the company for 2 weeks, they paid me for the full month. Tell no one.
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Are you not working 2 weeks in arrears? So when you leave you will be 2 weeks less. Our company once got took over and went from working 2 weeks in advance to 2 weeks in arrears (something like that) so we got a full months pay, then a full months pay 2 weeks later
 
I was paid an extra, between 15-25k Euro's (Forgot exact amount) when I leaving a company, sent 2 emails to the financial head, not a single reply. Stuffed it in an account, around a year later got in touch, not responding my initial 2 emails, asking if I'd been overpaid when I left. Told them yes, attached the 2 emails i sent, they said they'll sort the return details out, it took another 6-8 months to put back in their bank, as they slow in response or just sent wrong details and info.
 

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