% DE + Amount (percent of disposable earnings plus amount)

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = percent of disposable earnings + flat amount

Use for garnishments such as child support.

% Gross + Amount (percent of gross plus amount)

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = percent of earnings subject to garnishment + flat amount

Greater of % DE or Amount (greater of percent of disposable earnings or amount)

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = greater of a percent of disposable earnings OR the flat amount

Greater of % Grs or Amount (greater of percent of gross or amount)

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = greater of a percent of earnings subject to garnishment OR the flat amount

DE% (disposable earnings percent)

If the deduction is a flat amount only, leave this field blank to indicate that the percent is zero.

Garnishment Spec Data 1 (garnishment specification data 1)

GARNISH_SPEC1

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 1

Enter garnishment order information.

Garnishment Spec Data 1 (garnishment specification data 1)

GARNISH_SPEC1_CN

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 1

Enter garnishment order information.

Garnishment Spec Data 2 (garnishment specification data 2)

GARNISH_SPEC2

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 2

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 2

Enter information regarding the payee and contact information.

Garnishment Spec Data 3 (garnishment specification data 3)

GARNISH_SPEC3

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 3

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 3

Define garnishment deduction parameters and limitations.

Garnishment Spec Data 4 (garnishment specification data 4)

GARNISH_SPEC4

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 4

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 4

Define deduction information when deducting from all payrolls.

Before using this page, select Deduct on All Payrolls in the Deduction Schedule field on the Garnishment Spec Data 3 page.

Garnishment Spec Data 5 (garnishment specification data 5)

GARNISH_SPEC5

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 5

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 5

Define the payment schedule for the garnishment.

Before using this page, select Deduct by Schedule in the Deduction Schedule field on the Garnishment Spec Data 3 page.

Garnishment Spec Data 6 (garnishment specification data 6)

GARNISH_SPEC6

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 6

• Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 6

Indicate which garnishment rule governs each garnishment.

Garnishment Spec Data 7 (garnishment specification data 7)

GARNISH_SPEC7

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USA, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 7

Enter the court-ordered amount or percent by which to prorate the employee’s garnishments. Use this page only if the proration rule of the garnish law state is either CRTORD or CRTDET.

Also specify the pay mode for integration with PeopleSoft Enterprise Payables.

Garnishment Spec Data 7 (garnishment specification data 7)

GARNISH_SPEC7_CN

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data CAN, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec Data 7

Specify the pay mode for integration with Payables.

Garnishment Prorations Report

RUNCTL_PAY719

• Payroll for North America, Payroll Processing USA, Pay Period Reports, Garnishment Prorations, Garnishment Prorations Report

• Payroll for North America, Payroll Processing USF, Pay Period Reports, Garnishment Prorations, Garnishment Prorations Report

Generate PAY719 that provides a listing by court ID of employees whose garnishment amounts were prorated.

Status

Update this field as the status changes throughout the life of the garnishment. This is important because it affects the payroll processing of the garnishment deduction.

Received: Select this value when you establish a new Garnishment record, or to define an off-cycle entry for the employee to test the garnishment deduction before you put it into production.

Approved: Select this value when you inform the court, authorized agency, or government agency that you will comply with the garnishment or levy.

Completed: Select this value when the garnishment is paid in full.

Rejected: Select this value if you cannot comply with the garnishment or levy. For example, if you have terminated the employee and there are no wages to garnish, you can reject the garnishment.

Suspended: Select this value to stop the garnishment deduction in payroll while preserving the garnishment specification data.

If you select Received or Approved, the system processes the garnishment when you run the Pay Calculation COBOL SQL process (PSPPYRUN). If you select Completed, Rejected, or Suspended, the system ignores the garnishment during the Pay Calculation process.

(CAN) Deduction Code

This field is required for Canada only. Select a valid before-tax or after-tax garnishment deduction code.

If you select a before-tax deduction code:

• The following warning appears: Before-tax garnishment requires separate general deduction(s) for Company and Payee Fees.

• The fields that are associated with the processing of garnishment fees (on the Garnishment Spec Data 3, 4, and 5 pages) become unavailable for entry.

Because the system must process company and payee fees that are associated with garnishments as after-tax deductions, you must define them separately as general deductions. When defining these general deductions, clear the Garnishment Process flag in the Deduction table.

Received Date/Time

Enter the date and time that you received the writ of garnishment or tax levy from the court, authorized agency, or government agency.

Respond By Date/Time

Enter the date and time by which you must tell the court, authorized agency, or government agency whether you can comply with the garnishment order. For example, if the employee is no longer employed, you cannot garnish wages.

Type

Select the type of garnishment or levy:

Writ of Garnishment: Typical garnishment type for failure to pay.

Tax Levy: Failure to pay taxes.

Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Bankruptcy in Canada, or Chapter 13 bankruptcy in the U.S.

Wage Assignment: Similar to a writ, signifying a failure to pay.

Child Support, Spousal Support, and Dependent Support: Typically ordered by a family court. If you select this value, also select Current or Arrears in the Garnishment Support Type field.

(USA) Garnishment Support Type

Applies only for child support, dependent support, and spousal support garnishment types.

Court Name

Enter the name of the court, authorized agency, or government agency that has legal jurisdiction over the garnishment.

Court Document IDs

Enter any codes with which you identify the garnishment documents from the court or reports that you send back to the court or government agency. For example, garnishment documents might carry a file or case number, but a tax levy is usually uses a date and the employee’s social security number or social insurance number.

Deduction Schedule

Specify how to deduct garnishments:

Deduct on All Payrolls: If you select this value, use the Garnishment Spec Data 4 page to complete the deduction information.

Deduct by Schedule: If you select this value, use the Garnishment Spec Data 5 page to create the deduction schedule and complete the deduction information.

Priority

Select the processing priority of the garnishment in relation to other garnishments for the employee. This is not the same as the deduction priority in the General Deduction table. The system uses this value to process garnishments to which proration rules do not apply.

If you leave this field blank, or assign the same priority number to more than one garnishment specification, the system determines the processing priority by garnish ID. The lower the number, the higher the priority. For example, 100 is a higher priority than 200.

Include Company Fee Within DE (include company fee within disposable earnings) and Include Payee Fee Within DE (include payee fee within disposable earnings)

Select the check boxes to deduct fees from the employee’s disposable earnings before taking garnishment deductions.

Start Date

To start the garnishment deduction immediately, leave this field blank.

Stop Date

Leave the Stop Date field blank if you want the garnishment deduction to go on until the garnishment is satisfied. Otherwise, enter the date the deduction should stop. This date must be greater than the check date for a pay period to withhold the garnishment for that pay period. For example, if the pay period has an end date of March 10, 2000 and a check date of March 12, 2000, then the garnishment stop date must be greater than March 12, 2000 to withhold the garnishment in the March 10, 2000 pay period.

Calculate Stop Date or Stop Date Days

Select this check box to have the system calculate a stop date when you don’t know the exact stop date. For example, Tennessee currently has a rule for garnishments of the Writ type, specifying a term of 90 days. In other words, you can only garnish money for 90 days. The 90-day term does not begin until you actually begin taking money from the employee (that is, until the employee has money available to garnish). For example, you might receive a garnishment order on September 1. If the employee has another garnishment of a higher priority, there might be no money available to garnish until November.

In this situation, you cannot enter a stop date because you don’t know what the exact start date is. Instead, select the Calculate Stop Date check box and enter the length of the garnishment term (90 for Tennessee) in the Stop Date Days field. As soon as the system can take money for this garnishment, it:

1. Calculates the stop date by adding 90 days to the processing date of the current pay period.

2. Enters that date in the Stop Date field.

3. Clears the Calculate Stop Date check box.

From this point on, the system takes the garnishment until the end of the term, or until other limits are satisfied.

Limit Amount

Enter a limit amount to establish a maximum total amount for the garnishment deduction. Each time you run the Pay Confirmation COBOL SQL process (PSPCNFRM), the system updates the limit balance, displaying how much of the garnishment has been paid to date. When the limit balance equals the limit amount, the system automatically stops taking the deduction. To not set a limit, leave the limit amount blank.

Limit Balance

This field does not automatically reflect adjustments that you make to garnishment balances. If you make an online balance adjustment to garnishments, make the same update in this field.

Calculations for limit processing use the YTD Garnishment Balance (year-to-date garnishment balance) field on the Garnishment Balances page. Update the Limit Balance field with that value after making any adjustments to garnishment balances.

Maximum

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = disposable earnings − exemptions

The system takes all it can get. Use for garnishments such as tax levy and bankruptcy.

Frequency

If you specify a flat amount, enter a deduction frequency. The system uses this frequency to adjust the flat amount to the employee’s pay frequency to calculate the deduction amount per pay period.

Maximum Allowed

Select this option to calculate:

Deduction = disposable earnings − exemptions

The system takes all it can get. Use for garnishments such as tax levy and bankruptcy.

Garnish Law Source and Rule ID

Select the jurisdictional entity (garnish law source) and unique rule ID for the garnishment that you’re calculating.

This information is maintained in the Garnishment Rules table.

You can enter multiple garnish law sources and rule IDs for each employee. Typically, you enter the federal code ($U), then insert a row for each applicable state.

Note. (CAN) In Canada, you typically enter only the Garnish Law Source (province code or ZZ for federally supported rules).

Dep/Exempt Count (dependent or exemption count)

Enter the number of dependents or exemptions claimed by the employee.

Allowance Count

Enter the number of allowances claimed by the employee.

Exempt Amount

If the court determines an exemption amount, enter it here.

Amount Frequency

If the court determines an exemption amount frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly), select it here.

Form 668–W Year

This field appears on the page when the garnishment is a U.S. tax levy. For U.S. tax levies, the exemption amount is calculated using the year in which the levy was received unless the employee files a new Form 668-W with the employer. If the employee files a new Form 668-W, enter the year of the new Form 668-W here. The exemption amount is calculated using the exemption values for the specified year.

Pay Mode

Specify how Payables makes the garnishment payment:

Pay as Deducted: Select this value to pay the vendor each time Payroll for North America calculates this deduction.

Pay at Specified Date: Select this value to pay the vendor on a date that you specify in the AP Payment Date Type field.

Pay when Bond Price met: This value does not apply to garnishment processing.

Pay when Collection Completed: Select this value to pay the vendor only when you reach the goal amount or deduction end date. (This pay mode is valid for general deductions and garnishments).

AP Payment Date Type (accounts payable payment date type)

Specify which type of date to use when creating the accounts payable voucher. This field becomes available when you select Pay at Specified Date in the Pay Mode field.

Separate AP Payment (separate accounts payable payment)

Select this check box if the payment for this garnishment should be on a separate check when Payables makes the payment.

Garnishment Spec1 (garnishment specification 1)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC1

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec1

Enter garnishment order information.

Garnishment Spec2 (garnishment specification 2)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC2

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec2

Enter information regarding the payee.

Deduction Distribution Information

GVT_GARN_SPEC2_SEC

Select the Distribution Information link on the Garnishment Spec2 page.

Enter the payee’s garnishment deduction distribution information.

Garnishment Spec3 (garnishment specification 3)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC3

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec3

Define garnishment deduction parameters and limitations.

Garnishment Spec4 (garnishment specification 4)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC4

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec4

Define deduction information when deducting from all payrolls.

Before using this page, select Deduct on All Payrolls in the Deduction Schedule field on the Garnishment Spec3 page.

Garnishment Spec5 (garnishment specification 5)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC5

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec5

Define the payment schedule for the garnishment.

Before using this page, select Deduct by Schedule in the Deduction Schedule field on the Garnishment Spec3 page.

Garnishment Spec6 (garnishment specification 6)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC6

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec6

Indicate which garnishment rule governs each garnishment.

Garnishment Spec7 (garnishment specification 7)

GVT_GARNISH_SPEC7

Payroll for North America, Employee Pay Data USF, Deductions, Create Garnishments, Garnishment Spec7

Enter the court-ordered amount or percent by which to prorate the employee’s garnishments. Use this page only if the proration rule of the garnish law state is either CRTORD or CRTDET.