Add Garnishment Fees for US Employees

You can configure Dayforce to withhold a fee associated with a garnishment. See Garnishment Fees for US Employees.

Before You Begin: If you’re submitting the fee to a third-party payee, add the payee as a custom payee in Payroll Setup > Third Party Payees.

To add a garnishment fee:

1. Go to People, open the employee profile, and click Payroll > Garnishments.
2. Select the primary garnishment order that you need to withhold a fee.
3. In the expanded details of the primary garnishment order, click the Fees 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 how the fee is calculated in Ordered Amount Type.
   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, set up the payee that receives the fee:
   1. Select an option from the Payee drop-down list.
   2. Enter an alternate payee and memo details, if needed.
6. In the Parameters section, for fees that are system-calculated, select the Initial/First Fee Already Withheld checkbox when the one-time or first-time fee was already withheld. When the checkbox is selected, Dayforce won’t take the one-time or first-time fee into account in its calculations.
7. Click Save.