Add Garnishment Fees for US Employees

Before You Begin: See Garnishment Fees for US Employees.

Note: The settings for fee garnishments are similar to those of primary garnishment orders. You can refer to the documentation on primary garnishment orders for descriptions of specific settings. See Create Garnishments for US Employees.

To create an arrears garnishment:

1. Go to People, open the employee profile, and click Payroll > Garnishments.
2. Select a primary garnishment order that you need to add the arrears order for.
3. In the expanded details of the primary garnishment order, click the Arrears tab, and click Add.
4. In the Details section:
   1. Update the effective from date and enter an effective to date, if needed.
   2. Add a court order date and court order received date.
   3. Select an option in the Type and Duration drop-down lists.
   4. Select an option in the Ordered Amount Type drop-down list.
   5. If applicable for the ordered amount type that you selected, enter a value in the Ordered Amount or Ordered Percent field.
   6. If needed, select an option in the Limit Period drop-down list, and enter an amount in the Limit Amount field.
   7. If needed, enter a number in the Override Processing Sequence field.
   8. Important: Overriding the priority sequence field might cause results to be calculated contrary to the way applicable jurisdictional compliance rules would normally process them.
5. In the Payee Details section:
   1. Select an option from the Payee drop-down list.
   2. Enter an alternate payee and memo details, if needed.
6. Click Save.