Ex-Navy staff must pay back £1.2m 'wages'
HUNDREDS of serving and former Royal Navy personnel face having their pay packets docked thanks to a £1.2million wages blunder.
Axed and retired sailors are among those expected to be told to pay back cash following a Ministry of Defence (MoD) overpayment error.
The mistake, which affects 423 people, was uncovered on the heels of a long investigation dating back many years in ratings' pay grades.
Those affected will see a shortfall in their pay packets until the debt is settled.
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The error is also thought to affect a number of personnel who have either retired or been made redundant.
The MoD confirmed these would also be expected to pay the money back.
One of those affected is understood to have been told that he must give back as much as £17,000.
Meanwhile, another member of the service has been asked to give back just £9.
The servicemen affected found out in a letter from the MoD.
The department wrote that an investigation had been carried out, saying: "The findings highlighted over-payment to a number of Navy personnel.
"Any overpayment has been held in suspense while the question of write-off action was considered by the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency.
"Unfortunately it has been decided that write-off to this debt has been deemed inappropriate."
Comments
by Luvsthenews
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 12:44PM
“This is not a case of you where overpaid and took it.
I believed i was entitled to a higher band and asked JPAC, they lifted the bar on my pay and back dated it in 2009.
It now seems the JSP is different to the Br and dins/RNTM's at the time. Now i have to try and prove what was happening back in 2008 and 2009.
I do not know fully how much the figure is i owe as it keeps changing from £2800 to £3800.
They can take it off you but i can not reclaim the fact i have not been awarded an AIP advance in pay that i owed.
With Any luck when i go back into operations in October i am shot and i see the ******s right off!”
by Vinnie_Gar
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 11:07AM
“I bought a car once that had a duff head gasket.
It was a mistake by me that cost me. I didn't expect anyone else to pay for it.
Are you listening MoD?”
by wasntmeguv
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 10:15AM
“If you receive a significant amount of money you weren't expecting, you would query it. What's happened to honesty?"
But what if you unbeknowingly recieve a very small amount (say £20 - £30 a month) over a long period is that being dishonest?”
by TheMercenary
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:49AM
“If you receive a significant amount of money you weren't expecting, you would query it. What's happened to honesty?”
by wasntmeguv
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:15AM
“Shocking treatment confounded by their being no tangible support to represent them " sorry son weve messed up your wages for the last couple of years but as you've had the money we want it back, oh yeah, we'll be taken 4 days wages of you a month untill it's cleared" cheers easy!”
by pogle063
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 8:48AM
“When I left in 2004 the pay system was in a right mess and people were unsure of what bands they had been put into, many cases the people who banded them were not sure either. Bit unfair to punish people who were being over paid and POSSIBLY didn`t even know it.
Typical MOD failure to look after its employees.”
by Vinnie_Gar
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 8:03AM
“Spooky isn't it that when there was a huge error on tax credits and other benefits it was written off.
Easy target for bean counting a***holes maybe?”