My guess is since over payment is a thing 99% of overpayments are intentional and require no intervention but 1% would require an entire department to figure ou

My guess is since over payment is a thing 99% of overpayments are intentional and require no intervention but 1% would require an entire department to figure out the correct refund so they went to their local politicians and asked if they could skip that whole thing and that’s what the politicians agreed with.