article_snippet.sent: Blunder by pensions office, in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany saw a letter sent out A woman asking for £3,351,978,728,190,661.
article_snippet.sent: a letter sent out the woman asking for £3,351,978,728,190,661 is more than a thousands times than the whole of Germany's annual gross domestic product.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, the customer's real contributions should only have been around a few hundred pounds.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for the office said the mistake was made when a pensions office worker accidentally copied a customer number into the form, rather than the amount outstanding. '
article_snippet.sent: Yes, the letter did in fact go out like that,' pensions office spokesman Wolfgang Buschfort confirmed to The Local on Wednesday. '
article_snippet.sent: As far as I know, this is the only time anyone has been called on to make such a large incorrect payment.
article_snippet.sent: The error was spotted before the office attempted to debit the massive sum from the bank account of the woman, from the Schwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg.
article_snippet.sent: pensions office spokesman Wolfgang Buschfort added that with 26,000 employees working at the pensions office, mistakes were inevitable.
article_snippet.sent: The only evidence of the blunder that remained was the eye watering 16 figure demand letter.
highlights_snippet.sent: A woman was accidentally ordered to pay £3.35 quadrillion to A woman pension .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Blunder by pensions office was discovered before any money was taken .