Payroll

New and Updated

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  FAQs

  May an employer garnish the wages of an overpaid employee to recoup the overpaid amount?

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  FAQs

  How can an employer prevent the nonrepayment of overpaid wages that may result if a new employee quits shortly after receiving a signing bonus and other benefits?

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  FAQs

  Should an employer accept an employee's uncashed paycheck from a prior year as reimbursement for a wage overpayment that occurred in the current year?

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  FAQs

  Must an employer wait until an employee pays back the full amount of a wage overpayment via pay deductions spanning several years before filing Forms 941-X and W-2c?

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  FAQs

  For purposes of recouping a wage overpayment, is there a dollar amount that is considered too small to be worth recouping?

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  FAQs

  Which department of a company is best suited to handle the recoupment of wage overpayments?

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  FAQs

  If an overpaid employee does not pay the employer back in the same year, should the employer give the employee a new Form W-2 showing less wages and taxes for that year?

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  FAQs

  What action should an employer take if an overpaid employee refuses to consent to the employer's request to seek a refund of the overpaid FICA taxes?

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  FAQs

  What action should an employer take if a request for consent to file a refund claim for overpaid FICA taxes sent to a former employee's last known address is returned as undeliverable?

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  Letters and Forms

  Request for Employee Acknowledgment of a Wage Overpayment Letter

  This letter may be used to inform an employee of an inadvertent overpayment of wages, and to secure the employee's authorization for the employer to recoup the overpayment via payroll deductions.