Audit uncovers erroneous overtime payments to ineligible NH state workers
A recent legislative audit found that workers on New Hampshire's state payroll may have received up to $36,000 in overtime pay despite not being eligible for it, according to the Nashua Telegraph.
Employees with exemptions from collective bargaining agreements that require workers be paid at the time-and-a-half rate receive payment at their normal wage instead.
However, an investigation of 13 state agencies uncovered 377 potential cases of unwarranted overtime payments, the news source reports.
According to Colin Manning, press secretary for New Hampshire governor John Lynch, the error has already been addressed.
The state's Bureau of Trails, which controls funding for the maintenance of snowmobile and off-highway recreational vehicle trails, had two employees who were overpaid by more than $900.
"Our effort will be to work with the employees to work additional hours which will then in turn be utilized to offset the differential in pay," wrote bureau officials in the audit, as quoted by the news source.
New Hampshire has also recently grappled with overpayment issues on a grander scale. Specifically, the federal government claims to have overpaid the state by $35 million for Medicaid reimbursements, and is now looking to get the money back.
Employees with exemptions from collective bargaining agreements that require workers be paid at the time-and-a-half rate receive payment at their normal wage instead.
However, an investigation of 13 state agencies uncovered 377 potential cases of unwarranted overtime payments, the news source reports.
According to Colin Manning, press secretary for New Hampshire governor John Lynch, the error has already been addressed.
The state's Bureau of Trails, which controls funding for the maintenance of snowmobile and off-highway recreational vehicle trails, had two employees who were overpaid by more than $900.
"Our effort will be to work with the employees to work additional hours which will then in turn be utilized to offset the differential in pay," wrote bureau officials in the audit, as quoted by the news source.
New Hampshire has also recently grappled with overpayment issues on a grander scale. Specifically, the federal government claims to have overpaid the state by $35 million for Medicaid reimbursements, and is now looking to get the money back.
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