Argh! Stupid NHS!!

[Jenny]

Last year i was working for a PCT while studying or a post grad diploma in psychology.. and i left in August after finding myself a proper job! At the end of August i found they still paid me my August Salary (ok it wasn't much, i was part time and badly paid) but i thought "shhhhhhhhhhhh" (naughty naughty!!). But then in September when they did the same again i thought there's no way i can keep this money, especially as it's the NHS and they need it! So i contacted my manager and told her. She said she'd contact payroll

That was that... never heard anything else...

And today, 7 months later i've got a letter from them asking me to pay back £1300!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhh i'm buying a flat at the moment and have put all my savings aside for the deposit!! I kinda had forgotten about this extra cash and am now wondering how to pay it back! I think i'll need to contact them and say it was THEIR mistake and i put them right, so they will need to let me do it in installments now!!

woooops!! :oh:

[TDM]

Ouch, that's irritating! I hope they let you pay it in installments... paying another lump sum on top of getting some place to live is the last thing you need right now. :hug:

TDM

[Daisychain]

:yikes:

wow,that's gotta hurt! I hope they will allow you to pay in installments. Their mistake,not yours. I hope you can manage it :hug:

[NoodleM]

I think you should offer to pay back £1:00 a week Jenny or maybe even 1p !! :D

[Jenny]

I wrote to them and said i couldn't afford to pay it all back in one go so will do it in installments, and i gave them a plan of when and how much i'll send. Haven't heard back from them so am assuming all is ok! :fence:

[mumof4]

This is similar to what happened to me - when I stopped working as a district nurse to have my 3rd baby I was overpaid by a month. I contacted them and it all went quiet - then my baby was born and it went out of my mind to chase them.
few months later I started to get letters where they wanted it back - sadly we'd had xmas by then and I'd (eek!) spent it.
I swear the NHS is in chaos when it comes to finances!

[Jenny]

I swear the NHS is in chaos when it comes to finances!

Totally! They waste so much money on some things and then don't have enough money for other fundamental things. I hope you got your overpayment issue sorted out - they still haven't contacted me again to say whether it's ok or not for me to pay a little monthly so am just gonna assume it's fine and dandy. I'm looking at it as an interest-free loan :party:

[Jenny]

On the flip side, I recently decided to declare to the taxman (ok so i should have done it sooner but hey ho) that I have a flat in Devon and am renting it out...... I was expecting to be fined or at least have to pay about £1000 in tax to them covering last year, but after doing an online self assessment they've refunded me £560!!!!

:groupwave:

(not sure how that worked out but i'm not complaining!!)

[widowmaker17]

As far as I'm aware you only need to pay back the September money, you can pay in installments, my partner was over paid and only paid back £10 per month.
If you notice the NHS are very slow when they owe you money but when you owe them they want it yesturday.

[andyhp]

On the flip side, I recently decided to declare to the taxman (ok so i should have done it sooner but hey ho) that I have a flat in Devon and am renting it out...... I was expecting to be fined or at least have to pay about £1000 in tax to them covering last year, but after doing an online self assessment they've refunded me £560!!!!

:groupwave:

(not sure how that worked out but i'm not complaining!!)

I don't know you and I know this is irrational but I may be beginning to hate you! :)

Same situation and got hit for £1,100 tax bill and threatening letters!

[Jenny]

Yikes! I am actually wondering if i filled in the forms right!! But i guess the difference is that last year i was in a really really rubbish job which paid very little (NHS) and i was part time so maybe my overall salary despite renting out my flat too, was still quite low..

Good luck with sorting yours out though! Sounds stressful x

[lanie1969]

that happened to me when i worked for the council, another government blunder, they payed me for nearly a year so your not on your own there and yes id did the same SHHHHHH and payed back in installments as well.TAKE CARE