What Happens If A Casino Overpays You

Bollocks to the lot of you. Casino's are slums, the people that own them multi-billionaires. If I were you I would keep the $500 in a heartbeat. It's not like you've taken money from an organisation that needs it. These places have been scamming people for decades and deserve everything they get. Payroll errors happen and they’re never pleasant. Informing an employee of an overpayment and trying to recoup those funds has to be one of the most uncomfortable experiences. And when it comes time to fill out and file T4s, the headache only grows.

The U.S. Defense Department’s system for getting back overpayments made to service members is muddled, inconsistent and puts personnel at risk of receiving inaccurate and incomplete information about what they owe, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The Pentagon sometimes overpays military members due to administrative errors in processing pay and allowances, or when calculating pay and leave. There are nearly 400 debt collection offices within the Pentagon and the individual services are responsible for recouping these overpayments.

Department of Defense officials agree that recent overpayment collection efforts “have placed undue burden on service members and their families, such as financial hardship, garnished wages, and damaged credit scores,” according to the federal watchdog’s recent report.

GAO found that key parts of the DOD regulations for recouping overpayments are “incomplete or unclear” and letters sent to debtors sometimes fail to include all the information necessary to help service members navigate what’s often a painful process.

For example, some debt notice letters reviewed by investigators never stated that the debtor has a right to inspect and copy records related to the debt, or that the service member could review and dispute the sum.

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Other debt collection letters excluded any information that the amount owed would be garnished from a service member’s wages, or that they had the right to request a waiver of the debt, GAO found.

Policies and procedures at the Pentagon’s Defense Finance and Accounting Service, or DFAS, and the services “often were not current, complete, or clear,” GAO added.

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“Unless the military services and DFAS fully incorporate the DOD Debt Collection Regulation into their respective policies and procedures, service members will likely continue to receive inaccurate and incomplete information about their debts and related rights and protections,” GAO auditors wrote.

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