B.C. woman to stop getting paycheques for job she doesn’t have [Video]

There appears to be an end in sight for the strange predicament of a B.C. woman who was being paid by the federal government for a job she was hired for but never actually did.

Vanita Lindsay said that she has been told the bi-weekly payments – which have amounted to nearly $9,000 since they started appearing in her bank account over the summer – will stop.

A frustrated Lindsay told her story to CTV News Tuesday, and on Wednesday she got a call from a manager at Employment and Social Development Canada.

“She told me that I wasn’t going to get paid at the next cycle,” Lindsay said, adding that she was also told she would be receiving a letter soon about how to pay the money back.”

Paying back the $8.816.20 won’t be a problem.

“I put it all into a different account because it’s not my money,” said Lindsay.

But she still has some unanswered …