A young man in the Gironde area was asked by the local Pole Emploi (job centre) to repay some 3100 euros over-paid to him during a period of unemployment. The system normally offers a repayment plan spread over a period of months or years. In his case the amount to be paid each month was calculated as 0.01 euros - ie 1 centime. That will take 26126 years! Now that seems a good deal, but our young man is disputing the actual debt, so did not ask for spread repayments and pointed it out to the authorities.
A spokesperson for the Pole Emploi said it was a "computer bug".....
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