Overpaid

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Please can someone who understands this please help untangle this in my head.

My dp is paid weekly and for the past two weeks his basic flat salary has been overpaid by £465 each time. Now obviously he has been taxed on this aswell each week.

How it happened on both weeks we don’t know but employer was informed ASAP and it’s a given that he will pay it back that’s not the issue.

The problem is employer has given two different amounts to be paid back so we’re not full of confidence they have told dp the right amount to be paid back correctly now. We obviously have paid tax on these overpayments so don’t want to be stung with it again or the mess up the tax allowance for the year and also for tax credit purposes we could do without that being messed around come the end of the tax year.

The overpayment amount minus deductions from both weeks we have put away to one side to repay but my head is jumbled with the figures, deductions etc so if you understand what I’m explaining please help

Don’t pay it back, ask them to adjust his wage going forward. Otherwise gie do you make sure his tax is ok with HMRC. I was paid twice and rather than return it I asked for my next wage to be £0 so my tax is calculated correctly.

The two figures are likely to be gross and net. As a pp said it should be done via his wages which will correct NI and tax.

He should send an email (put in writing) asking them to ensure he is not overpaid again and to correct his next weeks pay. It would be reasonable to ask for the adjustments to be done over two weeks as this is the period of overpayment.

I would not pay it back, I would tell them to put the deduction through the next payroll as that will result in the tax being deducted correctly.

Thank you all.

Will get him to email and tell them
To take it back from his wages instead of paying him.