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Garnishment
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What is a garnishment? When an employer receives an order from a judicial or governmental agency requiring the employer to withhold a certain sum from the wages of an employee for payment of a debt, it is called wage garnishment. There are both federal and state laws that apply to wage garnishments.
These laws set maximum amounts that can be garnished from an employee’s paycheck, and the priority of certain types of garnishments over others when an employer is faced with deductions from an employee’s paycheck for more than one garnishment. In addition, the Bankruptcy Code prohibits garnishment and tax levies once the employee has filed for bankruptcy. An employer may not discharge an employee because of wage garnishment “for any one indebtedness” in order to prevent discrimination.
Employers must also take specific steps upon receipt of a collection request from an outside agency, including answering the order and calculating applicable exemptions.
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152944
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Garnishments policy
08/24/2017
National
156451
index.aspx
Analysis
Garnishment
03/04/2009
National
154872
index.aspx
Questions & Answers
May an employer discharge an employee because of wage garnishment?
11/15/2005
National
154497
index.aspx
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What is the maximum amount of wages available for garnishment?
07/18/2005
National
151749
index.aspx
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Do you have information about Qualified Medical Child Support Orders?
09/11/2003
National
151748
index.aspx
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Are we required to garnish child support payment from an employee's last pay check?
08/13/2003
National
151747
index.aspx
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What do you do with an IRS garnishment order when the individual being garnished is not your employee but an independent contractor?
05/02/2003
National
151746
index.aspx
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My manager wants me to begin deducting an 'admin fee' for garnishments, and it is unclear to me whether to deduct the allotted amount for where our buisness is located or deduct according to the originating states' regulations.
04/28/2003
National
153063
tools.aspx
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Garnishment Checklist
01/29/2003
National
151744
index.aspx
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Can you tell me where I can find the federal regulation regarding wage garnishments and charging the employee for processing fees?
03/04/2002
National
151745
index.aspx
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Wage Garnishments: If a company has to pay extra fees to an account for them to process wage garnishments can the employeer charge part of that back to the employee with the wage garnishement. And is that diffrent from state to state?
02/25/2002
National
151743
index.aspx
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An employee has not informed us that she may be subject to garnishment. Should we confront the employee before garnishments are made or should we just deduct the garnishments without notice to the employee?
10/08/2001
National
153592
index.aspx
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I have a client that has rules stating they will terminate an employee if they have more than two (2) garnishments, and they are warned verbally, then written, with last steps termination. Do you have any informaiton on this?
01/01/2000
National
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