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EvilPixie Aug 2023 9:33am, 25 Aug 2023 46,034 posts	0 EvilPixie LOL
Velociraptor Aug 2023 9:34am, 25 Aug 2023 65,042 posts	0 Velociraptor Useful information, Cath
Fizz :-) Aug 2023 9:38am, 25 Aug 2023 8,166 posts	0 Fizz :-) I never got an FA to check my assumptions before I resigned. Maybe I should have. Lol. It looks like we have enough though. And worst case scenario, with no children, we could equity release if we don’t downsize.
Ness Aug 2023 10:15am, 25 Aug 2023 33,728 posts	0 Ness LOL Sigh.
Bazoaxe Aug 2023 10:27am, 25 Aug 2023 25,497 posts	0 Bazoaxe Sigh. My wife left a job and was paid for three months after leaving. She flagged it immediately and we put the money aside. It took three months for them to stop paying and ask for the money back. This caused issues with tax overpayments that took a while to unravel. Pension payments were also made but no attempt was made to recover those.
Sigh Aug 2023 1:13pm, 25 Aug 2023 22,027 posts	0 Sigh Sigh. My wife left a job and was paid for three months after leaving. She flagged it immediately and we put the money aside. It took three months for them to stop paying and ask for the money back. This caused issues with tax overpayments that took a while to unravel. Pension payments were also made but no attempt was made to recover those. Hopefully they'll sort mine straight away, I'll then ask for the P45 they should have already issued, otherwise I'll end up with an inaccurate P60 next year and by then they'll have forgotten about this latest balls up.
Dave..M Aug 2023 9:06am, 26 Aug 2023 225 posts	0 Dave..M After taking redundancy in 2020, then being asked to go back as a contractor for 6 months in February, my contract has been extended to the end of the year, but I’m dropping it down to a three day week. This is my first long weekend and it’s lovely 😆
Dibble Aug 2023 12:04pm, 26 Aug 2023 1,011 posts	0 Dibble Sigh - same thing happened to me in that I got paid the month after I retired. I told HR and they said sorry our mistake, keep the payment and we'll assume you retired a bit later that you did! Some months later I was speaking to someone who retired on the same day as me who said she was also paid extra. She kept quiet about it and then the company came along a few days later and asked for it to be repaid!
Dibble Aug 2023 12:05pm, 26 Aug 2023 1,012 posts	0 Dibble Sigh - same thing happened to me in that I got paid the month after I retired. I told HR and they said sorry our mistake, keep the payment and we'll assume you retired a bit later that you did! Some months later I was speaking to someone who retired on the same day as me who said she was also paid extra. She kept quiet about it and then the company came along a few days later and asked for it to be repaid! To clarify, she did work for the same company as me.
Sigh Aug 2023 12:42pm, 26 Aug 2023 22,041 posts	0 Sigh Well my (now-ex) boss is also a board director and company secretary, so if she can't get HR to sort this out, no-one can!

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