Auditor General Says $500M in Overpayments to Civil Servants Needs to Be Collected

Auditor General Says $500M in Overpayments to Civil Servants Needs to Be Collected
The Public Service Pay Centre is shown in Miramichi, N.B., on July 27, 2016. The Canadian Press/Ron Ward
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Up to a quarter of federal government employees are still experiencing problems with their pay because of the troubled Phoenix pay system, and the government might be running out of time to collect on overpayments.

A new report from Canada’s auditor general says 28 percent of civil servants in its sampling had errors in their pay, which is down from an estimated 47 percent last year.