More than half a billion dollars in overpayments to federal employees due to previous errors in Ottawa’s Phoenix Pay System are yet to be recovered, according to recently released federal records.
Cabinet disclosed a number of figures in an Inquiry of Ministry related to the failed payment system, which Ottawa launched in 2016 in an effort to consolidate a number of outdated payroll systems that were still being used for federal employees at the time.
“Since the launch of Phoenix approximately 389,500 employees have been identified as having received either an administrative overpayment or true overpayment totaling $3.08 billion as of April 24,” Cabinet wrote in the Inquiry tabled on June 9, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….