Garnishments and Withholdings

This section covers garnishments, levies, support orders, mandatory withholding, and priority rules for amounts taken from pay.

Use it when the deduction is required rather than chosen by the employee.

Current pages:

• Garnishment explains the broad payroll category for required deductions taken from employee pay.
• Wage Garnishment explains required deductions tied directly to wages.
• Child Support Garnishment explains a common required-deduction payroll context.
• Levy explains another required payroll collection concept.
• Disposable Earnings explains the earnings amount payroll treats as available for certain required-deduction purposes.
• Deduction Priority explains the order payroll follows when multiple reductions compete in the same run.

In this section

• Child Support Garnishment
  What a child support garnishment means in payroll, how it affects pay, and why payroll treats it as a required deduction.
• Deduction Priority
  What deduction priority means in payroll, why it matters for required deductions, and how it affects payroll review.
• Disposable Earnings
  What disposable earnings mean in payroll, why they matter for required deductions, and how they differ from gross pay.
• Garnishment
  What a garnishment is in payroll, how it affects employee pay, and why payroll must treat it as a required deduction.
• Levy
  What a levy means in payroll, how it affects employee pay, and why it is treated as a required payroll collection.
• Wage Garnishment
  What wage garnishment means in payroll, how it works, and how it relates to required deductions from employee pay.