Garnishment 

The principle of garnishment

Garnishment allows sums to be deducted directly from an employee’s pay. These sums correspond to debts owed by an employee. A distinction must be made between:

■         an alimony claim

is a fixed amount regularly deducted from an employee’s pay each month and always has priority

■         a non-alimony claim

is a non-alimony amount that is reimbursed each month until full payment/reimbursement. It has a lower priority than an alimony claim, however a distinction is also made between a priority non-alimony claim and a non-priority, non-alimony claim. This distinction lies in the fact that a priority non-alimony claim is deducted before a non-priority, non-alimony claim.

Calculation of the garnishment is performed essentially in the FSAR schema by means of the FPSAR function. This function calculates the part that can be garnished and the part that can be relatively garnished.

 

Integration

These claims are entered in the Garnishment infotype (0272). The system supports localization of the garnishment scales.