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Attachment orders are issued by HMRC to employers notifying them to deduct amounts from an employee's wages to pay certain types of debt. An example of this is student loans.
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Attachment orders are issued by an agency e.g. HMRC, to employers notifying them to deduct amounts from an employee's wages to pay certain types of debt. An example of this is student loans.
As standard the system has a couple of adjustments set-up which can be assigned to an employee via [[How do I Assign Payroll Attachments to an Employee?|Attachment Order Entry]]. There is a maximum of 14 adjustments that can be set-up in the system at any one time.
 
  
Deductions from employees pay due to attachment orders and student loans are made using specific Adjustments (one per agency).  
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Deductions from employees pay due to attachment orders and student loans are made by specifying the agency concerned.
  
{{Note|text=Before a particular agency is available for use, the slot to be used must be set up in {{Menu|{{PR}}|Payroll Parameters|Company Parameters|Period Adjustments}}. ''See [[How do I Set Up Payroll Adjustments?#Attachments/Special Adjustments|here]].''}}
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{{Note|text=Before a particular agency is available for use please check they have been assigned a slot in {{Menu|{{PR}}|Payroll Settings|Period Adjustments}}.}}
  
Applying attachments for an employee must be done prior to [[How do I Close a Payroll Period?|closing]] a payroll period. If you have an employee who has a fixed value addition or deduction each period to or from their pay you can set these up on the [[How do I Add a New Employee to the Payroll?#Adjustments|Employee Adjustments]] rather than setting up attachments. ''See [[How do I Add a New Employee to the Payroll?#Adjustments|here]]''.
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See [[How do I set up payroll adjustments?#Attachments/Special Adjustments|How do I Set Up Payroll Adjustments?]] for further instructions.
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Applying attachments for an employee must be done prior to [[How do I close a payroll period?|closing]] a payroll period following [[How do I assign attachments to an employee?|this]] article.
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Other additions or deductions from pay e.g. bonuses, expenses etc should be entered as adjustments rather than attachments.
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See [[How do I set up payroll adjustments?|this]] article to create the adjustment headings. The values can then be entered in your {{Menu|Run Payroll}} screen or you may specify regular fixed amounts on the employees record (see [[How do I create an employee in the payroll?#Adjustments|this]] article).
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
* [[How do I Set Up Payroll Adjustments?]]
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* [[How do I set up payroll adjustments?#Attachments/Special Adjustments|Attachments/Special Adjustments]]
* [[How do I Assign Payroll Attachments to an Employee?]]
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* [[How do I assign attachments to an employee?]]
* [[How do I Add a New Employee to the Payroll?#Adjustments|How do I Add a New Employee to the Payroll?]]
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* [[How do I create an employee in the payroll?#Adjustments|Regular Adjustments]]
* [[How do I Enter Sick Pay?]]
 
* [[Dealing with Employee Holidays in Payroll]]
 
* [[How do I Deal with Dividends in Payroll?]]
 
  
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Latest revision as of 05:31, 7 June 2020

Summary

This article explains how to setup payroll attachments.

More Information

Attachment orders are issued by an agency e.g. HMRC, to employers notifying them to deduct amounts from an employee's wages to pay certain types of debt. An example of this is student loans.

Deductions from employees pay due to attachment orders and student loans are made by specifying the agency concerned.

Before a particular agency is available for use please check they have been assigned a slot in " Payroll Payroll Settings Period Adjustments".

See How do I Set Up Payroll Adjustments? for further instructions.

Applying attachments for an employee must be done prior to closing a payroll period following this article.

Other additions or deductions from pay e.g. bonuses, expenses etc should be entered as adjustments rather than attachments.

See this article to create the adjustment headings. The values can then be entered in your " Run Payroll" screen or you may specify regular fixed amounts on the employees record (see this article).

See also


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