Hope someone can help me figure this out... Sorry, it's a bit long.
In 2012 I entered a Salary Sacrifice agreement for Childcare Vouchers with my (then) new employer. Since the first month, the 'salary' part of my pay slip remained unchanged, but 'Childcare Voucher' appeared in the deduction column. I've never thought much about it, just thought it was how it was administered there.
Today, the payroll company used by my employer has dropped a bombshell on the Finance Director to say that due to an error on their part, the employees that receive childcare vouchers have been overpaid. Apparently the error only applies as far back as April 2014. But the structure of my pay slips hasn't changed - apart from tax code changes and pay rise adjustments.
A quick go on Mr Anchovy shows me that, because they've administered the voucher as a deduction after tax rather than a reduction in my net salary, I have indeed been overpaid. It works out at about £150 a month by my calculations.
The payroll company wanted to recoup the overpayment in one go in September (bye bye £800, more than half of my gross monthly salary). The FD said she wasn't happy with taking the overpayment back in one go and that they'd split it over 12 monthly installments.
Problem is, I'm going on Maternity Leave in December for 9 months. I don't think they can deduct the overpayments from SMP (no additional company maternity pay) can they? So when the hell am I supposed to pay this back?
It's completely the payroll company's fault, and I'm feeling pretty resentful at me being the one to have to stump up the cash to fix it - even though logically I know it's not my cash because it was paid in error, it's still annoying because they shouldn't have got it wrong in the first place!
Has anyone got any advice about the technicalities of repaying overpaid salary? I'd like to go back tomorrow armed with a bit more information, as although I'll be talking directly to the payroll company tomorrow I don't really trust them to get their facts right now if they've already got it so wrong...
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Salary sacrifice not applied correctly, now my employer wants overpayment back
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StetsonsAreCool · 17/09/2014 20:49
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