A Penny Saved

For the past two months, I’ve gotten free health insurance through my work. It’s supposed to be $78/month for a Blue Cross/Blue Shield Community Blue PPO enrollment, but so far, the woman who does payroll has forgotten to take it out of my paycheck. I’ve been  getting paid $2065 instead of $1987. I went to go see her about it in November, right after it first happened, and offered to “refund” the money, but she said not to worry about it. So, I was surprised when my December paycheck was for the same amount, as I’d thought she had fixed it. I went to go see her about it again. This time she fixed it while I watched, and told me to consider it a gift. Apparently, this was not the first time she’s forgotten to deduct someone’s health insurance from their pay. And she’s married to the president of the company, who’s a very laid-back guy, so it’s not like she’ll get in trouble over it or anything.

It was a nice present–a $156 paycheck error in my favor. It went towards loan repayment, fulfilling a $20.07 donation to my college that I pledged in June (If 20% or more of the senior class made a donation of that size, someone rich was going to donate $10,000–and we made it! 40% of our class donated. But no more donations until the loans are gone!), and paying off last month’s unexpected expenses so I wouldn’t have to dip into my emergency fund.