Error sees overpayment of workers

Hospital workers will be asked to repay the money

Five hundred workers at Jersey's General Hospital have been overpaid their wages by thousands of pounds.

Because of errors with a new computer system, they have each been paid 100 times more than they should have been.

It meant instead of a total amount of £168,000 going into accounts, £16.8m was paid instead.

The department responsible for the error has apologised and says it is speaking to every worker to ask them to repay the money.

Policy and Resources Chief Executive Bill Ogley has launched an inquiry into the incident.

He said: "I've asked States external auditors to undertake an review of how it happened so I can find out why that error occurred."