Understanding Entering a Wage Attachment for a Wage Assignment
You enter a wage assignment when a court orders you to deduct ongoing payments for child support or maintenance from an employee's earnings.
Often, employees have wage attachments to pay their child support or maintenance payments that are late or in arrears. In these cases, the court might require that, in addition to the amount that you must deduct for ongoing payments, you must deduct payments for the amount in arrears. In the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Payroll system, this amount is called the agency arrearage.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Payroll system recognizes two types of arrearage amounts:
Amount Type |
Description |
|---|---|
Agency arrearage |
An amount past due as stated by the court when it issued the wage assignment. |
Deduction arrearage |
The amount that the system could not deduct from the employee's wages because the employee did not earn enough to pay the wage assignment deduction. |
When you enter a wage assignment for an employee, you specify how to calculate the deduction for ongoing payments. If the employee has an agency arrearage amount, you must also specify how to calculate payments for agency arrearage amounts. To specify how the system processes a deduction arrearage, you enter arrearage rules in the wage assignment deduction.