When the Army overpaid me I didn’t know it until payday when I didn’t get a check, they just didn’t pay me until it was paid back, which made it difficult for a newlywed with a non-working wife and off-base rent due, a car payment and food and utilities needed.
This was the old low-pay army and I don’t know how we survived, but I do remember it was terrible.
Whenever I got overpaid I knew it and didn’t spend the extra. I held it until they discovered it and took it back.