25-02-2018 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com

Overpaid: Biologist having trouble giving back extra $25,000 he received by mistake

Jérôme Marty says he’s more fortunate than some of the victims of the federal government’s Phoenix pay system.
The former biologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada wasn’t short-changed on his paycheque. Just the opposite, in fact. He calculates the federal government has paid him about $25,000 too much.
It hasn’t been easy giving the money back, though. More than a year after the problem cropped up, Marty is still trying to resolve both the overpayment and th
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