Court Orders/Student Loans GB (Infotype 0070): Court Orders (SAP Library

Court Orders/Student Loans GB (Infotype 0070): Court Orders

Definition

This infotype, used with a court order subtype, records any court orders made against an employee that are to be paid through the payroll.

Use

If you receive notification from the court or local authority that deductions are to be made from an employee's earnings, you must create a Court Orders/Student Loans GB (infotype 0070) record for them, with the appropriate court order subtype. All information used by the payroll to process court order deductions is stored in this infotype.

Structure

Court Order Type

There are a variety of court orders existing within Great Britain that you may have to administer via payroll. Country-specific court orders exist for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

For more information; see: Court Order Types.

Object ID

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

Identification Data

Identification data for the court order can be entered in this infotype. This data is located on the court order that you receive from the court or local authority. You can enter a plaintiff reference number, issuing authority details, and the date that the court order was issued or received by you.

The CAPS indicator should be set if you make your court order payments through the Centralization of Attachment of Earnings Orders Payment System (CAPS). You are able to send all your court order deductions to this central government agency, which then distributes the appropriate amounts to each court involved.

Monetary values

These details are also given on the court order. The information is used by the payroll to make the court order 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 retrocalculation is required for court order processing.

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

Example

For a court order type EWN (non-priority AEO - England and Wales) and NIN (non-priority AEO - Northern Ireland), entries should be made in all three monetary value fields (standard payment, protected earnings, and total sum).

For a court order type EWP (priority AEO - England and Wales) and NIP (priority AEO - Northern Ireland) only the standard payment and protected earnings need to be specified.

Payee

You use the Payee section of infotype 0070 to enter the payee details required for paying court orders. You can specify whether the payments are to be made by bank transfer or cheque in the payment method field. If you choose to make the payments by bank transfer, you also need to enter the bank details.

Note

Once a payment has been made for a court order in a particular payroll period, the bank details cannot be changed for this payroll period. These bank details may only be changed for future payroll periods.

Payment Periods/Dates

You must also specify when the court order payments are to be made, and the frequency of such payments. You can specify the payroll period in which the first payment is to be made, in the first payment period field. If you choose to determine your payment schedule via payroll period, you must also enter the number of periods that should lie between two consecutive payments using the interval in periods field. If you make no entry in the interval in periods field, a repayment occurs in every period from the first payment period

Alternatively, you can enter a date on which the first court order deduction will be made, in the first payment date field. You must then also specify the interval between each payment, using the interval and time unit fields.

Administration fee

Here, you can use the F4 input help to enter the appropriate constant fee type. This sets the current default value defined for this constant fee as the processing fee for the court order concerned. Alternatively, you may set your own fee.

Payment history

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).

Retrocalculation Implications

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