Assigning Court-Ordered Garnishments

Court Order ID

Enter the unique code for the court order. This is the user key that the system uses for accumulators that determine the recovered amount and pending amount to deduct.

Description

Enter a description of the court order.

Start Date

Enter the date on which the court order takes effect.

End Date

Enter the date to stop the court order.

Priority Number

Set the priority for the garnishment. If more than one court order is assigned to a payee, the priority numbers determine the order in which they are calculated. The lower the priority number, the higher priority the court order has.

Calculation Type

Select the method by which the system calculates the court order. Values are:

Amount: Select to calculate the court order as a fixed amount that can be deducted either one time only or once per month between the start date and end date.

Based on Ranges of SMI (based on ranges of salario minimo interprofesional): Select to calculate the court order as a fixed amount to be deducted as soon as possible, but with respect to article 607 of Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil.. For more information see the section ‘Calculation based on Ranges of SMI’ below.

Percentage: Select to calculate the court order as a percentage of a specific element.

Other: Select to calculate the court order using a set of rules that you define.

Amount

Enter the monetary amount of the court order.

Currency Code

Enter the currency of the amount.

Percentage

Enter the percentage that the system applies to the specified base element to determine the amount of the court order deduction.

Base Element Type

Enter the type of element that the system uses for the base amount when applying the value you enter in the Percentage field. Values are: Accumulator, Earnings, Formula, and Variable.

Element Name

Enter the element that the system uses for the base amount for the court order.

Amount Type

Select Formula to specify the type of element that the system uses to calculate the court order amount.

Element Name

Enter the formula that the system uses to calculate the court order amount.

Guaranteed Amount Type

Select the type of element the system uses to determine a guaranteed minimum net amount. Values are: Accumulator, Formula, and Variable.

Element Name

Enter the element that determines the guaranteed minimum net amount for the court order. For example, if the court order guaranteed the salario minimo interprofesional (SMI), you could enter the variable REJ VR SMI GARANT in this field because it represents the SMI for payees.

Periodicity

Enter the frequency of the court order deduction. Values are:

One time: Select to deduct the court order amount only once. If you select this value, the system does not calculate the garnishment after the date you enter in the End Date field.

Recurrent: Select to deduct the court order amount monthly between the start date and end date. If you select this value, the system stops deducting the garnishment amount after the date you enter in the End Date field. The system might still calculate the deduction for an unrecovered amount that corresponds to a previous month.

Consider Extra Period

Select to include the court order in extra period processing.

Alimony

Select to designate the court order as a pension for a spouse or children. This means that the deducted amount with affect the payee's tax calculation because it reduces the payee's withholding percentage.

Type of Alimony

Specify whether the alimony if for Spouse Support or Children Support.

Discount from Payroll

Select to indicate that the court order is managed by the payee outside the PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain system.

Home Mortgage

Click this check box to identify the court order source as home mortgage seizure. 

Dependants Number

Enter the number of dependant without incomes to be considered for the calculation of the minimum guaranteed net.

SMI Scale Range

Use the %Scale1 through %Scale5 fields to enter the percentages that the system applies to the five ranges of SMI. The system populates these fields with default regulatory values. You can reduce the values, but only by 10-15%.

Recipient Tag

Select the ID of the recipient of the court order deduction. Only recipients assigned to the employee are available to select in this field.

See Add Deduction Recipients Page.

Source Court ID and Source Court Name

Enter the ID and name of the court that issued the court order.

Subject

Select a reason for the court order.