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This past April (2001), my former employer closed it's Chicago, IL doors and laid off its employees with severances. I received my final severance check in the mail AND a "regular" pay check via direct deposit. They mistakenly hadn't turned off direct deposit so the two week pay automatically went through on my regular pay day. They now claim I owe them for the 2 week pay that was directly deposited into my account.

Is this true? Or do I have a legal right to this money since the mistake was clearly their's? Is this sort of like when someone sends you mail and you have legal right to keep whatever they sent to you?

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