EI overpayment

Urrrggg. So apparently when I was on EI (way back in late 2007), I was paid out for an extra week. The letter went to my parents home back in September (I was living in their basement suite when I was on EI), so I didn’t actually get the letter until 2 weekends ago when I went to visit. I checked back in my paperwork, and yup. They’re right. I did get paid out for an extra week. But it was so long ago that when I moved to Vancouver, I didn’t even think to update my EI account with my new address.

Now I owe $426 plus some sort of $212 penalty for not paying that amount in a timely fashion after I was issued the letter in September (30 days). I called in, and they told me I should write a letter and dispute the penalty amount – because I didn’t actually get the letter until not too long ago – and I called in right away to inquire about it anyway.

So, I paid the $426 today and will be writing in a letter to see if I can get the $212 removed from my account. If not, I’ll have to pay for that too. I wonder if that was my paperwork error or theirs, but I guess it doesn’t matter now, since it wasn’t my money to begin with.