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According to the Department of Labor, wage garnishments are court-ordered notices requiring an employer to withhold wages from an employee's earnings. Wage garnishments are from official agencies and typically withhold things like child support or debt collections. Tips are usually not subject to garnishment.
The most common type is a child support garnishment. There are also unpaid debt collections, liens, and federal collection garnishments. Many will have a standardized format, but all will specify the employee's name, their social security number, and the amount and frequency of the wage garnishment.
After receiving a garnishment, verify the employee is still with your company. If the employee no longer works for your business, notify the agency which sent the garnishment. You are not required to collect wages from an ex-employee.
If the employee is still a part of your business, send the complete notice to Toast Payroll; include all pages and information you received. Our Customer Care representatives are trained to apply these garnishments appropriately, and we encourage our customers to leave the setup to Toast rather than enter it themselves. Send you wage garnishments to use via the blue chat button in the lower-right corner of any Toast Payroll page.
If the garnishment includes any worksheets or answer sheets, Toast Payroll does not fill those out on your behalf. It is the customer's responsibility to complete and return any worksheets or answer sheets included in the court order.
Once Toast Payroll has confirmed to you that a wage garnishment has been set up, a will be present on the employee's profile. Every regular pay period thereafter (not including or supplemental payrolls), the system will attempt to deduct the specified amount from the employee's wages. If an employee has enough earnings during that pay period, they will see a deduction on their pay stub. If an employee does not earn enough to cover the withholding as specified in their garnishment, the system may withhold some or none of the deduction.
A paper or digital check will be generated by Toast Payroll and sent to the withholding agency. Our customers will not need to remit payments on their own.
Many wage garnishments can appear similar, especially child support garnishments. Some garnishments also change their terms during the garnishment period. To ensure that the garnishments and deductions in the system are the most accurate, contact us by selecting the blue chat dot in the lower-right corner of any Toast Payroll page with any and all garnishments you receive.
In many cases, the garnishment order will have been fulfilled. In other cases, the garnishment may have been set up with an expiration date or it's possible that the garnishment was cancelled or terminated by a court or creditor. Further, Toast complies with laws that suggest a garnishment must not withhold so much from an employee that they do not have a livable wage. Consult an attorney or other professional to see which situation might apply to the garnishment in question.
There can be other reasons for this, but with Toast Payroll, the most common reason for a child support or other garnishment to not withhold the full amount on a paycheck is because the individual's wages on this check consist of mostly tip amounts. Federal regulations exclude tips from disposable earnings since the funds aren't directly paid by the employer. Tips can be included in garnishments when specifically requested or stated on a garnishment or child support order, but this is rare.
There are two different places you may look. To view deductions across a single pay period, navigate to Payroll > Past Payrolls tab. Select View for the intended payroll. Scroll down and select the Check Register report. A section in this report will list all garnishment payouts.
To view garnishment deductions by employee, navigate to Reports > Standard. Search for garnishment and select the eyeball icon for the Vendor Payment History Report. On the following page, select Queue. Then you will be offered two fields, a Start Date and an End Date. Once those are set, select Submit, and a report will begin downloading.
No, medical support orders are different from wage garnishment child support orders. We do not support these orders nor create any deductions for them; you will need to follow the instructions on the order outside of Toast Payroll.
This content is for informational purposes and not intended as legal, tax, HR, or any other professional advice. Please contact an attorney or other professional for advice.