Terms

These terms are pertinent to wage attachments:

Employee

Enter the debtor or obligor.

Obligee

Enter the creditor, garnishor, person, or organization to whom the employee owes money.

Company

Enter the company, the employer, and the garnishee.

Payee

Enter the person or organization that receives the payments and, in turn, pays the obligee.

To deduct a court-ordered payment from the employee's earnings, you can enter a wage attachment for the employee. You can also enter a wage attachment for an employee when the organization grants a loan to the employee and charges interest for the loan.

When you enter a wage attachment for an employee, you define the specific rules for calculating the wage attachment. For an employee who has multiple wage attachments of the same type (two garnishments, for example), you can set priorities for each wage attachment. You also can enter additional information for a wage attachment such as its file number and effective dates.

You can enter a wage attachment for an employee in either of these ways:

• Enter the deduction for the wage attachment in the employee's DBA instructions.

  The system displays the Wage Attachment Revisions form, on which you can enter the unique information for the employee's wage attachment. The system prompts you to enter only the information that applies to the type of wage attachment that you are entering.

• Enter the wage attachment information for an employee directly by accessing the Wage Attachment Revisions form from the wage attachment workbench.

  The system adds the wage attachment DBA to the DBA instructions for the employee.

You can choose the method that works best for you. If you have many employees with wage attachments, entering the wage attachment information directly is likely the most efficient entry method.