How the Payroll Process Calculates Involuntary Deduction Payroll Run Results for the US
When calculating involuntary deductions, the payroll process generates multiple run result values to assist you in understanding what calculations were made during the payroll run.
Run Result Values
These are the involuntary deduction results values.
Run result |
What it means |
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ActualOrderAmount |
Order amount you entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component. This represents the override value. |
AvailableCBEarnings |
Not used. |
AvailableEarnings |
Amount of available earnings calculated by the payroll process. View the run result values of the calculator element to see the disposable income for the period (DisposableIncome) and for the run (DisposableIncome_run). |
DeductionsCalculated |
Amount of the involuntary deduction calculated by the payroll process. Shows the actual amount deducted in the payroll run. |
OrderNumber |
Reference code entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
ProtectedPayAmt |
Amount of protected pay calculated by the payroll process. |
ReferenceCode2 |
Element entry ID value generated from the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
ThirdPartyPayee |
Internal ID of the third-party payee for the order amount. |
TotalOwedAmount |
Total owed amount entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component. This represents the override value on the card component, if you entered one. |
l_area1 |
Numeric state geocode. |
These are the processing fee results values.
Run result |
What it means |
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FeeCalculated |
Amount of the fee calculated by the payroll process. |
OrderNumber |
Reference code entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
ReferenceCode2 |
Element entry ID value generated from the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
State |
Two-character state code. |
ThirdPartyPayee |
Internal ID of the third-party payee for the processing fee. |
These are the result values specific to the calculator element.
Run result |
What it means |
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OrderNumber |
Reference code entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
CalculatedOrderAmt |
Amount calculated for the involuntary deduction. This result isn't the final calculated deduction amount. |
ProrationRule |
Support orders use the Prorate rule. The ProrationCalcRule run result shows the hierarchy rule. For all other deduction types, this can be:
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ProtectedPayAmt |
Amount of protected pay calculated by the payroll process. |
CalculationInfo1 |
Info related to total owed balances, calculation rules, multiples allowed rule, the not allowed rule, and for federal tax levies, info for the deductions at time-of-writ calculations. For further info, see the following table. |
CalculationInfo2 |
If the info in CalculationInfo1 exceeds the character count, the remainder appears here. |
DisposableIncome |
Disposable income amount for the pay period. |
DisposableIncome_run |
Disposable income amount for the payroll run. |
ProrationCalcRule |
For support orders, the proration calculation rule used. Other deduction types don't use this. |
ReferenceCode2 |
Element entry ID value generated from the Involuntary Deductions card component. |
These are the calculator element information values. They show info related to:
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Total owed balances
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Calculation rules
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Multiples allowed rule
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Not allowed rule
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For federal tax levies, they show info for the deductions at time-of-writ calculations
The contents of the CalculationInfo1 and CalculationInfo2 value can vary based on the info shown in the table. If the info exceeds the character count, the remainder appears in CalculationInfo2.
In this case |
This is the run result vale |
For example |
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Involuntary deductions subject to a total owed balance |
Returns this run result after the order has been satisfied.
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States that don't allow certain types of involuntary deductions |
Returns this run result.
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For a Texas garnishment or South Carolina creditor debt, the result would be:
This scenario generates a message. |
States with multiple legislative rules to determine proper calculations |
Returns one of these run results.
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A New York Creditor Debt has three rules that determine the proper calculation. If the deduction calculation uses 25% of disposable income, the result would be:
If the deduction calculation uses 10% of gross wages, the result would be:
If the deduction calculation uses 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, the result would be:
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States that don't allow multiple involuntary deductions of the same type to be processed concurrently |
Returns this run result on subsequent multiple orders.
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For subsequent Montana garnishments, the result would be:
This scenario generates a message. |
Federal tax levies with deduction at time-of-writ overrides |
Returns this run result.
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