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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Ade65[/i] [br]Hi, I made myself bankrupt in July this year. Today I have just had a letter from my former employer, Sheffield City Council, telling me that if I don't pay them back some overpaid salary within 14 days they will take me to court. This overpayment of salary dates back to July 2007, when I worked one week for them. They paid me until the end of the month, so there was an overpayment. However, at the time I didn't notice this as I was putting money from my credit cards to my bank account for normal household use, and I never received a payslip so I wasn't aware until they first queried it (I wasn't receiving bank statements at the time so didn't spot it that way either). I have had some correspondence with them, late last year and in January this year, and pointed out that the overpayment was their fault as they knew when I had left, and it was before the salary-run date so they could have paid correctly and that failure to do so was down to their internal errors/systems, and that if they had issued me a payslip as legally required, I would have known about it. I was in no financial position to pay back at that time. Since January this year I have heard nothing, so assumed it was written off. Obviously if I had known it wasn't closed, I would have included it in my bankruptcy information. What is the position now, does anyone know? As it was an extant debt at the time of my bankruptcy it presumably should have been included then....so what do I do know? Do I write to the Council explaining this, do I copy the OR in, or is there something else I should do? I am shocked that after my last letter to them, 20 Jan 2008, they have taken all this time to reply. Any advice welcomed. Thanks, Ade [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.