<prompt> Human: I received an email this morning from ADP telling me I had a new pay stub available. This immediately seemed odd to me since the company I work for doesnt run payroll or provide pay stubs through ADP. After logging into ADP, I saw the pay stub was from Vectrus, a company I stopped working for back in January of 2016. Aside from the fact that I dont work for this company anymore, the check is unusually large - a little over 7k for a one month pay period. Unfortunately, Ive never been blessed with that high of a salary. The pay stub has no contact info for the Vectrus pay roll department, and my searches on Google havent turned up any useful contact numbers, either.What Im mainly concerned about is whether this error was reported to the IRS as actual income - Id rather not be responsible for paying taxes on money that isnt mine, and that I havent even received as it looks like theyre trying to deposit the money into an account that I closed soon after leaving Vectrus. Although the pay stub shows state and federal taxes were deducted, so I guess the taxes would already be paid? Im honestly not sure how that works - Ive always just gotten my W2s and filled in the boxes that TurboTax told me to.Any advice on where I should go from here would be greatly appreciated!EDIT: Screenshot of the pay stub with itemization and tax deductions, in case thats helpful PII cropped out.MORE EDITSCLARIFYING DETAILS:- All I have is just a PDF of a pay stub. No check was mailed as the bottom of the stub not included in the screencap specifies this is supposed to be a direct deposit. I recognize the last four digits of the account as the account number for the checking account I had at the time. That checking account was closed soon after I left Vectrus, and I dont even bank with the same bank anymore. I literally have no access to this money.- Im fairly certain this isnt back pay from checks where they paid me too little. I only worked at the job for about a year total, and less than a year with Vectrus as they only took over the contract a few months after I started working there. Even if they were shorting me 200 out of each paycheck 400month - bi weekly pay schedule, it wouldnt have added up to the 11.5k shown on the pay stub before taxes. This job did not have bonuses or any perks like company cars or anything. I was lucky to accrue PTO under their stingy contract.- Definitely not a 401k payout as that was accounted for after I left. The little bit that I had accrued while working there was rolled over to IRA and Roth IRA accounts with my new bank.ACTIONS TAKEN SINCE POSTING:- I was able to find the phone number for their main office in Colorado. I called early this morning not too long after my initial post, was transferred to payroll, and got the voicemail. Left a VM with a brief summary of the issue and my call back number. No call back so far.- Called again just a little while ago. The person who answered said that the payroll people were in meetings the rest of the day, and that she should be able to connect me with someone if I call back tomorrow. We shall see...FINAL UPDATEFinally got in contact with someone in payroll at Vectrus. In a lot of my replies below, I was saying I was pretty sure that the money wasnt mine, and that Im positive that my paychecks werent short while working there. Well, I was wrong about it not belonging to me, and sort of right that my paychecks werent short. My checks were what they were supposed to be for the hourly rate I was getting paid at the time. Apparently, though, after stuff I didnt really understand, it was determined I was underpaid - my hourly rate should have been higher for the work I was doing. So, this is them making up the difference. I think my being rather stressed out was still a reasonable response because its definitely odd for a company to just drop 7k in your lap 2 years after you quit working there with no explanation as to why theyre giving it to you. While I dont live at the address they have on file for me, my number and email havent changed, so its not like they didnt have valid contact info for me. Anywho, I gave them my updated banking details and the new address for them to send the tax info to, so I should be getting a nice Christmas bonus some time next week. There are many shiny objects Id love to buy myself with that money, but Im going to be responsible and use it to pay off a couple of credit cards. Adulting sucks...Thanks again, everyone, for your advice! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Io Saturnalia, and all that jazz.Also, if this is one of those subreddits where we mark posts as resolved, let me know how to do that. Didnt see a flair for it.  <response>: I run payroll through ADP for a company. Its possible for you to be accidentally paid even after termination, it sounds like someone did not check their payment to inactive employees report. This can happen a number of ways, but essentially my advice would to be to contact anyone at the company who could get you through to the Payroll department. If it was direct deposit and that account is closed, the company will get a letter stating that the money cannot be deposited and the funds will return to their company in a few days. If you have access to the money, I would strongly advise you not to touch it. They can run a reversal on their side. All in all, Id just start calling and see who can get you connected to the Payroll Department. Youll want to clear this up before year end for sure. 