Salt Lake City, UT 84145-0288 ; Contact Unemployment Insurance Overpayment Collections: Phone: 1-801-526-9235 This file contains a sample letter for notifying terminated employees about overpayment issues.Occasionally, errors in payroll can lead to overpayments being made to wages of employees. Once an overpayment is identified, the department will be notified. The salary overpayment resulted because . The short answer is, "yes," employers may recover overpayments made to their employees. Overpayments are defined as wage and salary payments in excess of what an employee is owed.