This infotype stores court orders made against an employee that are to be paid through the payroll.

All information used by the payroll to process court order deductions is stored in the Court Orders records.

The object ID is generated automatically by the system, and is used by the Payroll Results report to differentiate between the payments for different orders.

The identification details are on the order that you receive from the court or local authority.

The CAPS (Centralization of attachment of earnings orders payment system) option allows you to pay the sum of all court orders to the Central Agency in Northampton, which will then distribute the appropriate amount to each court involved.

These details are also given on the court order. The information is used by the payroll to make the deductions from the employee’s pay. The payroll takes protected earnings into account and automatically keeps a total of arrears and arrears of protected earnings. For this reason, no retroactive accounting is required for court order processing.

Depending on the court order type, entries need to be made in some or all of these fields. If you specify a grand total, the payroll automatically stops making deductions when this total is reached.

In the Administration fee group box, you can use the F4 input help to enter the appropriate Constant fee type. As a result, the current default value defined for this constant fee is set as the processing fee for the court order concerned. Alternatively, you may set your own fee.

These are the payee details required for paying court orders. You can specify whether you wish to make your payments by bank transfer or cheque in the Payment method field. If you choose to make your payments by bank transfer, you also need to enter the bank details.

The Payment history option displays a payment history for the court order concerned. It shows the total deductions made for this specific court order since it became effective, the deduction arrears, protected earnings arrears, and accounting status (last payroll pay date).

Backdated changes to the Court Orders (infotype 0070) record do not trigger Retroactive Payroll Accounting. This is because the Payroll Accounting component automatically keeps track of arrears and protected earnings, as well as the arrears of protected earnings, and adjusts deductions accordingly.