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The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has confirmed that some federal workers received salary overpayments in December 2024 due to a system error.
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The overpayments are currently being recovered through deductions from affected workers’ salaries,
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OAGF assured that salaries paid in January and February 2025 will remain unchanged until a review by the Federal Government.
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has announced that federal workers who received salary overpayments in December 2024 due to a system error will face deductions from their salaries to recover the excess payments.
According to the OAGF, the overpayments occurred due to a system error, which has since been corrected. The affected workers will have the excess amounts deducted from their salaries until the full amount is recovered.
In a statement released on Friday, the OAGF explained that there were no shortfalls in salaries paid to federal workers in January and February 2025. The amounts received during this period reflected normal salaries after various arrears paid in the last quarter of 2024.
The statement noted that workers had received arrears for the minimum wage, the 25 per cent and 35 per cent salary increase, and wage awards between October and December 2024.
These additional payments had temporarily inflated salaries, leading some workers to mistakenly believe their January and February salaries had been reduced.
“Payment of normal salaries after exhausting the various arrears began in January 2025, which made some workers think that they were shortchanged when in actual sense, it was their real salaries. A glance at the current salary table will substantiate this further,” the statement read.
Regarding the payment of promotion arrears, the OAGF explained that the process is managed by a Standing Committee on Promotion and Salary Arrears in the Budget Office of the Federation.
The committee compiles and vets salary and promotion arrears from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies before forwarding them to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System for payment.
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According to the OAGF, batches 1 to 6 of the promotion arrears payments have been fully processed, with further payments awaiting approval from the Budget Office.
The OAGF urged workers with genuine salary complaints to follow the formal resolution channels and encouraged affected staff to report their concernpromptly for resolution.
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