Hi All
To cut a long story short ... was with my umbrella company for a year working on a contract the other side of the country. So was entering my weekly travel expenses which were being checked/approved against valid petrol receipts (or so I thought) by my umbrella company "account manager".
Now the contract has just finished, been informed by my umbrella company that I was incorrectly entering my travel for the period of the contract. Which is correct, using their online portal system I had accidentally specified 500 miles a DAY rather then 500 miles a WEEK.
Now being told by the umbrella company that I effectively owe +£25K...
Help. Any thoughts/advice welcome. I accept that I made the mistake, but equally the umbrella company must surely take some responsibility for the fact that they have been blindly approving my travel expenses, and have never reconciled my petrol receipts against actual mileage claimed .. otherwise would have been obvious that was a discrepancy. Since they were approved each and every week I made the mistaken assumption they were fine.
Is there anything I can do, or am I fully responsible? As my employer is there any legal redress for the fact that they have not been checking/reconciling my expenses or is this totally down to myself for entering them "wrong".
Also any ideas on what options I have if indeed I am fully culpable for the £25K overpayment.
Not been a good day!
To cut a long story short ... was with my umbrella company for a year working on a contract the other side of the country. So was entering my weekly travel expenses which were being checked/approved against valid petrol receipts (or so I thought) by my umbrella company "account manager".
Now the contract has just finished, been informed by my umbrella company that I was incorrectly entering my travel for the period of the contract. Which is correct, using their online portal system I had accidentally specified 500 miles a DAY rather then 500 miles a WEEK.
Now being told by the umbrella company that I effectively owe +£25K...
Help. Any thoughts/advice welcome. I accept that I made the mistake, but equally the umbrella company must surely take some responsibility for the fact that they have been blindly approving my travel expenses, and have never reconciled my petrol receipts against actual mileage claimed .. otherwise would have been obvious that was a discrepancy. Since they were approved each and every week I made the mistaken assumption they were fine.
Is there anything I can do, or am I fully responsible? As my employer is there any legal redress for the fact that they have not been checking/reconciling my expenses or is this totally down to myself for entering them "wrong".
Also any ideas on what options I have if indeed I am fully culpable for the £25K overpayment.
Not been a good day!
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