Social Welfare says i owe 7000 euro!

KilbarrackBlows

Hi
Well the other day i got a big shock i got up out of bed went down the stairs,
opened my mail to see a letter from the social welfare saying have been over paid almost 7000 euro since the 25-10-06 to 3-07-07.

I am on disabllity allowance for a while now and decided to do a fas course,
i filled out numerious forms to get on this course and even needed a exemption to do it, after getting the place on the course they were supose to take over my payments which i thought they had till the other day when i got this letter.

So i rang my bank and asked for statements from those date's
i got them today and i have shockingly been getting double payed
something like 410 euro a week since 25-10-06 but the end date they said is wrong as i finished this course months ago.

Now i already some savings in the bank at the time so i never checked what was going i just assumed i was getting 120 or what ever a week i paid my rent with it and had 20 for food.

So now here i am there asking for 7k that i dont have !
i got like 800 in the bank i spent my savings on furnature for my mother.

Someone didnt do there job and now im 7000 euro in det
and im really pissed of absolutly nuthing was said to be untill now!
it was money i didnt need i live by what i get and as far as i was aware i was getting 200 from the fas course each week.

So where do i stand here they say i can either pay it back fully or weekly 10 euro a week. But i had full intentions of getting of the disability allowence i was going back to college in september and now i cant afford to go of the allowence because some idiot screwed up and now im in the red.

Where do i stand !

garthv

You don't have a leg to stand on mate,
You were overpaid, that whole "Now i already some savings in the bank at the time so i never checked what was going i just assumed i was getting 120 or what ever a week i paid my rent with it and had 20 for food" doesn't work.
You'll have to pay up.

pedro ferio-vti

lol stinger.

sounds like you have to pay up mate, I know it's a terrible inconvenience getting overpaid all that money but you must have noticed something was up? If you were only withdrawing what you said you were for rent and food then the 7 grand should still be there surely?

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