The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority will begin to recover payments mistakenly made to 2,300 MPF accounts by the end of this month.
People whose pension accounts were wrongly topped up with a HK$6,000 government handout aimed at low-income workers will receive written notification this week about the withdrawals.
Authority chief operating officer Hendena Yu Hoi-ping told legislators yesterday that those affected would have three weeks to object to the withdrawals.
Late last month, the authority disclosed that HK$13.8 million had been wrongly paid into 2,300 MPF accounts.
A one-off giveaway of HK$9 billion was aimed at 1.4 million workers whose monthly income was less than HK$10,000. The mistaken payments were made into the accounts of people who earned more than HK$10,000 a month.
The authority said earlier that the mistakes were due to inaccurate salary records submitted by employers and MPF trustees.
But Civic Party lawmaker Ronny Tong Ka-wah expressed concern at a meeting of the Legislative Council financial affairs panel over reports of people with incomes over the scheme's limit being entitled to the one-off payments.