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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three months ago, I left a job at a federal agency after 3 years of service.  Last week, I received an email notification stating that I had been overpaid and was instructed to pay back the money ($16,000).  Apparently, I had been entered into the system incorrectly when I onboarded in 2017, and this was corrected two weeks prior to my leaving (three months ago).  Due to that error, I had been overpaid over my entire tenure and am now being asked to repay this amount.

Has anyone ever dealt with this before?  Any and all advice welcome. 
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I haven't dealt with it to the extent that you are, but yes. In fact, I'm dealing with it right now.

You can appeal/fight this, and hopefully the email you received provided instructions on how to do that. The deck is stacked against you, but not totally. For some reason I can't open the PP's link to their agency policy, but basically the standard is did you know, or should you have known you were being overpaid.

When you say entered into the system incorrectly, what does that mean for what you saw on your pay stub? If you were hired as a GS 11, step 1, say and your pay stub came to you with the wrong grade and step, you're probably out of luck, but if it was an administrative error that you would have had no way to detect then make your case.

There are deadlines to appeal, so I would wait. Hopefully they've sent you a detailed breakdown. Check it carefully. On mine, there was a miscalculation and I ended up reducing what I owe by several hundred dollars.[/quote]

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