Today I got an email saying the retirement plan management company noticed the error and are demanding I write them a check for the 8k. They even cheekily included pds of descriptions of courts favoring corporations/retirement plans and forcing employees to return the erroneous retirement distributions. They even came after someone's house after she used the retirement distribution to purchase it.

Do I have any options here? It's obviously pretty annoying I have to write a check for 8k just because some accountant fucked up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34057633)

http://www.blackenterprise.com/files/2010/09/bank_error_in_your_favor.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34061087)

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710728&mc=1&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34061404)

On one hand the money doesn't technically belong to me but i also don't see why some idiot making a $8,000 accounting mistake shouldn't cost his company $8,000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34060626)

I feel like I already fucked up because I forwarded the email to a friend so I don't know if that email exchange could be subpoena'd or something?

Is it possible I'd have to pay their legal fees if I lost in court?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34060719)

anything's possible but fee-shifting is pretty rare in most cases like this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34060788)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34060701)

that's the long and short of it. send it back. or tell the companies to work directly. you shouldn't have to do it from your own funds. this is a manager to manager action.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3710332&forum_id=2#34059989)