Prevent and identify an overpayment

An overpayment is an amount of money that you were not entitled to and that was paid to you, as a current or former public service employee.

Examples include:

• your acting pay did not stop when your acting assignment ended
• you continued to receive your regular salary when you were on leave without pay or had left your job
• you received an allowance when you were not entitled to it
• there was a late entry or approval for your leave without pay of 5 days or less

How to know if you have been overpaid

It’s recommended that you regularly check your pay stubs to identify any anomaly, including overpayments. For example, make sure your pay reflects any recent acting assignments. Remember to look at the correct pay period, considering your pay is always 2 weeks in arrears.

The simplest way to view and download your pay stubs is through MyGCPay.

For more detail on how to access and interpret your pay stubs: Check your pay stub.

How to prevent overpayments

To avoid overpayments, employees should ensure timeliness when submitting their leave or overtime hours into the pay system.

Managers are responsible for promptly processing a change in an employee’s career (for example, acting pay) into the Human Resources (HR) system to prevent pay errors.