It identified irregular payments of £19,188.85 which included duplicated payments to a supplier.
It was a duplicate payment, and Ms. Ruell corrected it.
The result, she said, was a duplicate payment.
"Because it generated a duplicate payment in our system, we caught it," she said.
Then came the theft conviction, which stemmed from a duplicate payment made by a school district to Save Our Kids, prompting Smith to resign from the state house, but it was later reversed by a judge.
"Affected members will receive an email with more details and should receive a credit for the duplicate payment in three to five days," said Stephanie Grodin, Director of Payments Product at Etsy.
Pension center workers say duplicate payments mainly seem to involve survivors for a variety of reasons.
The department says duplicate payments are rare — perhaps fewer than 100 a year.
The department did not allow Ms. Ruell's supervisors to talk about the duplicate payments.
We don't get all the revenue from third-party payers, we do overpayments and duplicate payments to providers.
The duplicate payments are the flip side of the attempt to speedily eliminate a backlog in the processing of claims.
