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Setting Up a Court Debt Collection/Creditor Garnishment – Payment Coupon

Setting Up a Court Debt Collection – Payment Coupon

Navigate to Employee Management > Employee Summary
  1. Select the Employee
  2. Take note of the payroll frequency
Navigate to Employee Management > Employee Pay > Garnishments
  1. Garnishment Type: Select Garnishment from the dropdown
  2. Leave start date blank – this begins the garnishment immediately
  3. Sequence number: 1 (always 1 or greater) Court summons or payment coupons are put in sequence by the limit. The lower the limit the lower the sequence
  4. Description: First initial last name - garnishment agency – last 4 digits of the case #

    1. (EX: G Dooley Cars Garn 1914-01)

  5. State: Pick the state where the garnishment originates.

Payee

  1. Payee: Client Payee – this is usually located under the case number. Use dropdown. If the payee is not listed, use the instructions for adding a third-party payee after completing the rest of the steps. *** You will not be using the address of the payee. You will be using the court address. Payee name and Court address. ***Check the address of the 3rd party payee very carefully. The court street address maybe the same as another address in the system but the floor could be different.
  2. Add the Case number. If there are more than 3 case numbers, put in the employee’s first initial last name and their SSN -masked except for the last 4 digits. (EX: H. Benedict XXX-XX-5879)

***If the case number wraps to a second line in the case number box, it will not be recorded on the pay stub

Garnishment Calculation

  1. Percent: 25% *this is usually shown on the 2nd document, if not use 25% as rule of thumb
  2. Percentage of: Disposable Income

Per Pay Fee

  1. Enter the garnishment fee if the client charges one (typically $5.00)

Minimum Take Home Pay

  1. Override Multiplier: 0
  2. Additional Amount: (hours per pay frequency) X (State Min Wage) = additional amount

Limits & Balances

  1. Enter the expiration date – Calculate the expiration date as the period end date of the last payroll prior to the due date
  2. Enter the limit – This will be the balance due
Navigate to Employee Management > Human Resources > Employee Documents
    1. Add new under the "Confidential Other"
    2. Document type: Child Support/Garnishment
    3. Change the description: First initial last name - garnishment agency – last 4 digits of the case # - date garnishment is entered into iSolved (Ex: J Burwell Roanoke GDC Garn 5500 11/30/21)
    4. Designate Read Only Access for all