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

If you receive notification from the court or local authority that deductions are to be made from an employee's earnings, you should create a Court Orders/Student Loans (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.

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.

The identification details are on the court 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 distributes 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 retrocalculation 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 tabstrip, choose Payee 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.

In the tabstrip, choose Payment dates to specify when the payments are to be made. Here you can specify the payroll period in which the first payment is to be made. This entry is used in conjunction with the Interval in periods field to determine all the payment periods.

Alternatively, you can enter the date of the first period in which the deduction should be made. This entry is used together with the Interval/Unit field to determine all future payment dates.

In the tabstrip, choose Administration fee. 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.

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/Student Loans (infotype 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.