The ruling on receiving a salary if the person has left the job

Question:
May Allah reward you. A listener from Libya asks and says: In this question, a woman left her job, and her salary continued to be paid to her for several months after she left this job. Her guardian took most of that money and spent it. The question is: What should this woman do, given that she does not have the ability to return that money? May you be rewarded.

Answer:
If the officials gave her the salaries while knowing that she had separated from the job, then the state system permits this: that a person, after the end of his work, is given a period or is entitled to rights from the public treasury from the rights of employees. If this is done according to a system recognized by the state, there is no harm in it, because it is a right of the employee that is processed for him or given to him after his separation from the job. However, if the officials did not know that this employee had separated and left the position, then he must return the amount he took to them, because he took it without right. Yes.