The second problem is, they have to get all that money back. If a federal employee is accidentally overpaid, the government can only recoup 16.67% of the amount of the overpayment per paycheck pay period. You can’t take it all back at once. So then they had to write a special payroll job to pull all this money back. It took ‘em like four or five months to get it all, but finally it was all accounted for.
I read that part, the language of the article makes it seem like they had to actively debit everyone that was overpaid to get the money back. Underpaying them on the next pay period wouldn't require any debits to the bank accounts where the money ended up ("take it all back"). Article doesn't have really have specifics to the solution. Rather what I mean is it's not clear what "take it all back" means: is that referring to direct debits to where the money ended up in, or is that referring to adjusting what goes out in the next pay periods?
jdsully|2 years ago
The second problem is, they have to get all that money back. If a federal employee is accidentally overpaid, the government can only recoup 16.67% of the amount of the overpayment per paycheck pay period. You can’t take it all back at once. So then they had to write a special payroll job to pull all this money back. It took ‘em like four or five months to get it all, but finally it was all accounted for.
omarfarooq|2 years ago