overpay - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • mortgage: Should you find it useful to be able to underpay or overpay on the mortgage.

Object

  • VAT: Affected bodies may be able to make claims for the repayment of any VAT overpaid in the past.
  • tax: Any overpaid tax can be claimed back at the end of the tax year.
  • credit: You may also be overpaid tax credit which you will have to pay back later.
  • benefit: We will seek to recover all overpaid benefit from false claims in any event.
  • sum: Bexley Magistrates were told that the Housing Benefit Office was recovering the sum overpaid from on-going benefit payments.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: Most lenders allow borrowers to overpay up to 10 per cent of their mortgage each year without penalty.

Modifying Another Word

  • back: Paying back overpaid housing benefit We may ask either you or the person who received the payments to pay back the overpayment.
  • much: We have heard many a time from our lecturer in Glasgow that Corporate lawyers in Edinburgh are very much overpaid.
  • n't: I don't see how anyone can say that someone earning £ 5m a year is n't overpaid.
  • not: Pierce was not overpaid, he put butts in the seats.

Used with why or when

  • when: The opportunity to overpay when business is good and borrow back if the need arises.

Preposition: for

  • coverage: To overpay for coverage about or unable business climate.
  • period: Overpay for a period of time or take a payment break.

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