Court Orders/Student Loans (Infotype 0070): Scottish DAS 

Definition

The Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) introduced in Scotland is a debt management scheme allowing employees to require their employers to make deductions from their earnings for the purposes of debt settlement.

As such, DAS is not a court order. It is an additional statutory deduction an employee requests.

 

Use

You create new Debt Arrangement Scheme deductions from an employee by creating a new infotype 0070 record with subtype SDAS.

 

Structure

Court Order Type

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

For more information, see: Court Order Types

Object ID

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

The object ID is used to make a distinction between data records with the same infotype, subtype, lock indicator, start date and end date.

Identification Data

Identification data for the DAS deduction can be entered in this infotype. This data is located on the payment mandate, the document prepared by a money adviser and given to you by the employee. You can enter a plaintiff reference number, issuing authority details and the date that the payment mandate was issued or received by you.

The CAPS indicator should be set if you make your court order payments through the Centralisation 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 payment mandate. 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.

If you specify a total sum to be paid, normally equal to the total value of the DAS deduction, payroll automatically stops making deductions when this total amount is reached.

Payee

You use the Payee section of infotype 0070 to enter the payee details required for paying DAS 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.

Once a payment has been made for a deduction 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 DAS 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 1st 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 this field, a repayment occurs in every period from the first payment period

Alternatively, you can enter a date on which the first deduction will be made in the 1st 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 DAS deduction you are creating. Alternatively, you may set your own fee.

Payment history

The Payment History option displays a payment history for the deduction. It shows total deductions made for this specific DAS order since it became effective, 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.

 

See also:

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

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