Viewing garnishment setup

Select a garnishment setup record in the “Select Garnishment Setup for Viewing” page.
Select the “View Garnishment Setup” hyperlink at the bottom of the page.
The “View Garnishment Setup” page appears.
The system displays the following.

Date format	The date format applicable to the login user. Tell me more
Payroll General Info. Unit	The organization unit selected in the previous page.
Garnishment Definition Id	A unique code to identify the garnishment definition.

The system displays the following details of the selected record.

Garnishment Setup Short Description	A unique description of the garnishment definition.
Garnishment setup long Description	A brief description of the garnishment definition. If you have identified the garnishment setup code as “GR002”, you can enter “Grnshmnt02.” as the short description and “Garnishment Setup” as the long description.
Pay Element Code	The pay element under which the disposable earnings are defined.
Rule	The rule name that defines disposable earnings

If “Rule Name” is displayed, you can view the details of the rule by selecting “View Rule” hyperlink.
From the “Limit on Garnishment Per Pay Period” group box the system displays the following.

Amount

The maximum amount that can be recovered as garnishments. In the adjoining drop-down list box the system will display “Per week” as default value. The drop-down list box will display the following values viz., "Per week”,” Per Day”,” Per Bi Week", "Per Semi Month", "Per Month" and "Per Year”. You must select one among them.

If the garnishment is to be a specific amount, example, $400, enter the value. If you have selected “Pay week” option from the drop-down list box you indicate that $400 amount will be recovered as garnishment for each pay week.

Percentage

If the garnishment type is to be a specific percentage of his/her earnings, example, 70%. This percentage will be recovered from the employee as garnishments.

Rule

The rule name based on which the garnishments are recovered.

Note: Only one option i.e., “Amount”, “Percentage” or “Rule” will be displayed. If “Rule Name” is displayed, you can view the details of the rule by selecting “View Rule” hyperlink.

Garnishment Pay Element	The pay element code under which the garnishments are recovered from the employee.
Service Charge Pay Element	The pay element code under which the service charges for the services rendered are recovered from the employee.

In the “Garnishment Type Priority” multiline the following are displayed.

Garnishment type	From the drop-down list box, select the garnishment type for which garnishments are to be recovered. The drop-down list box contains all the garnishment types defined in the quick codes.
Priority	A number to indicate the sequence in which the payments to be made. Example, 1, 2, 3,4. Entering the priority is applicable when you intend to enter more than one garnishment type for the garnishment definition.
Override Garnishment %	The percentage by which the garnishment value of the selected garnishment type can be overridden. This indicates that as you specify an override percentage for a garnishment type, the system will override the equivalent amount from the specified garnishment type and adjusts the same for other garnishment types if the total amount for recovery of garnishments exceeds the maximum amount.

To view comments

Select the “Book” icon that appears beside the “Comments” field. The system displays a dialog box.
The system displays a dialog box containing the comments previously specified, if any.
Select the “Cancel” pushbutton to return to the previous page.

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Page objective

Use this page to view garnishment setup details created for an employee.