Say you have been overpaid...

[chris-red]

It's not me but someone else honest!

So my friend is due an extra payment for travel, to the tune of ~£750 however it has been paid twice! Obviously they can claim it back at any time. I had a couple of questions.

Is there a time after which they can't claim it back?

Is there anything wrong with keeping schtum and holding on to the money in the hope that they do not notice? Obviously denying all knowledge of knowing about it if they find out.

My advice was keep it for a couple of months, then maybe move it to savings and keep it there for a year or so.
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[Rogue_Shadow]

Move it into a high interesting saving account ... if such thing exists anymore

Wait for them to make the first move, which will be precisely 10 minutes after you spend it

[Dalemac]

They will realise, then deduct it from future earnings. There is nothing to be gained from keeping it, may as well fess up to the mistake and avoid any future issues.
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[BigShow]

I deal with this sort of thing as my job. Unless he works for some Mickey Mouse outfit they will realise and they will get all it back one way or another.

We've had people get paid their whole salary for years and we still got it all back.

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[Rogerborg]

[Rogue_Shadow]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

750 scratch cards FTW
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[TheArchitect]

in my teens I worked for a shop selling curtains on the high street. It was a summer job and come september I handed in my notice and left.

Couple of weeks later I noticed they hadn't actually stopped paying me my basic pay. Being a broke arse student with a need for weed I kept quiet. They finally stopped paying me 8 months later, around the date I had originally started working for them. Best bit is they never asked for the money back, not one penny.
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[waffles]

Another vote for telling them now, he will get found out of he keeps it.

Many years ago I left one job to go into another, my previous employer didn't immediately tell payroll about me leaving so they paid me for the next month after I left. Within a week they sent me threatening letters with mentions of court and bailiffs if I didn't send them a cheque for the entire amount.
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[arry]

I got overpaid once and genuinely didn't notice (DINKS FTW) - firm came back after me 3 years later. I agreed with them I'd pay it back on a monthly. They got first month's payment and never bothered taking any more. Outside of their usual system you see, so it slipped a diary and that was that.

Normally I'd have given them them the money back immediately but Dom Perignon was on offer at Waitrose that month and I simply couldn't bear to miss out, especially as Ms Tottington-Muffley had been bragging about it down at the pony club

[chris-red]

So worst case scenario they take it back. Cool just what I thought.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
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[CBFcarl]

I used to work for a cable company. My final wage was for a full month and three weeks of holiday pay. I only worked a week of the month. Called through and was told that there wasnt a mistake.

Cut to three years later, and I got a letter advising that they wanted the money back. No response to that letter.

Nearly four years ago, I had an interview to go and work for the same company but different department (business instead of residential). Got offered the job and nothing was mentioned.

Having said that, if I was still working at the company and was overpaid I think that I would mention it.
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[mentalboy]

[monkeybiker]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Your best bet is estoppel.

Ring them up and say that you think that you have been overpaid, but you aren't good with numbers. Still the money in your account seems to be wrong.

If you get someone on the ball who figures out the issue, you have to pay it back (no loss)

If you get someone who says that everything is correct, feel free to spend it and then quote estoppel (you have been told it was correct and had no reason to doubt, they then can't decide it's incorrect.)

I love estoppel....
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[Pete.]

My dad, dying of cancer, got over-paid £36,600 by the DWP. They meant to pay him £400.00 but missed out the decimal. I told him to take it and have a ball since they would never get it back but he went down the bank and paid it all back the next day.
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[P.]

I got paid an additional 570 once from my 2nd job.

They didnt ask for it back, went in like 6 months after finishing with them... bought lots of food.

[zark]

[Ariel Badger]

Zimbabwe Railways once failed to pay my overtime and other monies so I went and sorted it at the office. they then paid me Z$2000 too much the next month. OK it was Z$ not real money but I was only paying Z$60 PCM for my flat in a brothel and could eat out at the best restaurant in town for Z$25. they never asked for it back.
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[Pete.]

[struan80]

Unfortunately, even though it is their mistake, I would own up and pay it back.

They will potentially eventually realise and you will become 'not popular' should they suspect that you knew and did not reoprt it.

Is it worth it?

[chris-red]