How to Use overpayment in a Sentence

overpayment

noun
  • This effort aims to clamp down on overpayments.
    — Angela Palo, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This applies even if the overpayment wasn’t your fault.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This applies even if the overpayment wasn’t your fault.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Zadorov signings looked like overpayments at the time and already haven’t aged well.
    — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • How does Ohio respond to day care overpayments?
    — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There is no limit for how many years the agency can go back to address such overpayments.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
  • That means benefits will be docked until the overpayment amount is met.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
  • And now the state has to recover that money to account for the overpayment.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The agency declined to say how many people have been asked to repay overpayments.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • When confronted about the overpayment, Lundy replied that the pay seemed normal to him.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Claimants have the right to appeal an overpayment notice within 15 days.
    — Alison Knezevich, baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • That was something that was meant to prevent duplicative claims and overpayments, but this had to be removed from the bill.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The woman received an overpayment, via an email check, in the amount of $3,000.
    — cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Any offer sheet thrown the Oilers’ way for Broberg was going to be an overpayment.
    — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The agency can waive overpayments when the beneficiary is found not at fault.
    — Fred Clasen-Kelly, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The agency has declined to say how many people are facing overpayment notices.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The Jeannot signing was widely panned as an overpayment.
    — Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The federal agency has lost billions due to overpayments in recent years.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • This sort of overpayment was a problem before the child tax credit’s expansion last year, but is a bigger one now.
    — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Few stars make it to July 1, which has led to major overpayments of the middle class in recent years.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • This suggests their overpayment is based less on enduring affection and more on bidding-war fever.
    — Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The authors hail an overpayment that is only 14% (and down from 20% the prior year).
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But the overpayment was not returned, the government alleges.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The feds also track the amount of money that state labor departments are able to recover from those overpayments.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • The new 100% withholding rate will apply to new overpayments.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • If people already sent in money to settle the overpayment, the state will return their cash, the release stated.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 13 July 2021
  • Ukrainian media reports have pointed to overpayments for basic supplies for the army, such as food and winter coats.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Refunds of overpayments Pay the same bill twice for a medical procedure?
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Maybe to a form of tax fraud (a curious kind that somehow ended with an overpayment to the federal government).
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • That was despite knowing there’s nothing clever or fortuitous about the negligent overpayment of tax.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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