Wife is being slightly overpaid in a government job
My wife works as a teachers aide. All of last year she received an allowance of $50 a fortnight for something extra she was doing. This year she isn't doing the extra bit anymore, but she's still been getting this allowance. She told the BM several times and then emailed her twice, but she's STILL getting the payment. If it was a private business we'd be happy to just keep taking the money and if it ever comes up we'll show the emails and go from there. But seeing as this is a government job we fear that if/when they find out we will have to pay it all back, rather than when it happened to me in a "normal" job and the boss admitted it was his mistake and let me keep it.
Should we keep notifying them until they get it fixed or just happily take the extra money and hope they never notice? If they do notice, what are the odds they will let us keep it??