Spending money wrongly credited to you

[surveyor_101]

How does it work if your employer in the case of lady I know its a NHS Trust have overpaid her for 3 months (yea NSH cash strapped right) on the Trott (she has informed them every month since month 1).

She has made a formal complaint this month (m3) to be told pay role is short staffed or overstretched so they haven't gotten around to not overpaying her and adjusting her pay to be correct.

I assume same rule applies that they can hit her with an overpayment claim at any point and she has not entitlement to the money, she just has to keep it safe until such time as they correct her pay.

[markjmd]

Derek Smith said:

REALIST123 said:

jamei303 said:

speedyguy said:

That seems to be a common theme with the police

It would be wasting their time along these lines:

999 - Emergency which service?

- Police please

- Can you tell me what is the emergency?

- Hi I was charged £3.50 for some strawberries in Tesco instead of £2 and they won't give my £1.50 back

- Did you ask them?

- Yes they said I need the receipt but I don't have it. Can you arrest the store manager for theft please?

- ...

Hardly the same thing.

So, if you had £7200 stolen from you, you’d be happy for the Police to shrug it off, and leave you to it?

It’s a sad thing when such theft is so easily dismissed.

It's identical apart from the amount. As others have posted, and you appear to have ignored, this is a case where the evidence is all for the customer. What do you expect the police to do?

If what the OP has posted is correct, it is unfortunate that a simple error has cost the friend's so much. It's an expensive lesson.

There may well be a crime, but without evidence to counter what the customer says . . .

It would be nice for your errors not to cost you, but that's not what happens.

I'm trying to understand why this couldn't be investigated in much the same way as an Unexplained Wealth Order. Yes, the amounts involved are far smaller than the ill-gotten gains of your average Russian Oligarch or mafia kingpin, but £8000 in cash is still a fair chunk of change for most people to have just lying around the house, and it would/should be quite obvious from rudimentary enquiries into the depositer's financial history that it's vastly at odds with their usual spending and earning patterns.

[Knock_knock]

Probably because most forces will have at best a handful of Financial Investigators, who will be busy dealing with serious and organised crime matters typically, and also because even a "cursory" look at someones bank accounts requires a Court Order, signed by a Judge, who has to be satisfied that such an Order is lawful and proportionate. Trying to prove that someone shouldn't have £8k in cash isn't going to prove a "theft" in any case, especially when it would be nigh impossible to disprove (with a proportionate investigation) that the money wasn't the product of saving a bit here and there, a car boot sale, birthdays, Xmas's etc.