Woman is paid thousands for job she's never worked...despite attempts to hand cash back

A Canadian female revealed she keeps getting paid for a authorities occupation she has ne'er worked, contempt her repeated attempts to extremity nan rate from coming in.

Vanita Lindsay said she interviewed for nan occupation and was offered a clerk position astatine nan telephone halfway for nan Canada Pension Plan successful July.

She declined nan connection but was shocked to observe nan statement had started depositing paychecks into her slope relationship successful August. 

Lindsay said she has been paid a full of $8,816.20 for nan job, contempt galore calls and emails asking to beryllium taken disconnected nan payroll.

'It's hilarious, weird and benignant of messed up. I want it done because it's conscionable ridiculous,' Lindsay told CTV News.

The stay-at-home mom from Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, told nan outlet she had not been successful nan workforce for 20 years, but applied for nan gig because it offered nan expertise to activity from home. 

Just days earlier he commencement day she decided not to move guardant pinch nan position. 

'I emailed nan adjacent greeting and said, "I'm sorry, it's thing to do pinch you guys aliases thing for illustration that, but I conscionable can't do nan job." So, I thought that was that,' said Lindsay.

Weeks later connected August 14 she checked her slope relationship and discovered nan unexpected deposit.

'I'm like, "Oh my God, they paid me,"' she said.

Lindsay said she contacted her would-be supervisor to notify them astir nan payment, but ne'er received a reply. Two weeks later, different cheque came through.

While nan rate keeps coming in, Lindsay said she keeps trying to interaction nan section to make it stop, but she is receiving mixed messages that nan business has either been dealt pinch aliases is getting looked into.

'With my husband's career, I don't request that money. It should spell to personification that is struggling to provender their kids,' she said.

The female is concerned that nan other money is being recorded arsenic income and could put her family into a higher taxation bracket aliases effect their authorities benefits.

'I've put it each into a different relationship because it's not my money,' said Lindsay.