The proposal here is that the right to gain an attachment of earnings should now be limited to maintainance payments only.

In many American jurisdictions, attachment of earnings is treated the same as, or is just called, garnishment.

At the current time, all sorts of bodies and organizations can apply to have an attachment of earnings made on someone who owes money.

Part 4 makes some changes to attachment of earnings and charging orders to make recovery of debts more straightforward.

In 1958, the system of attachment of earnings was instituted m respect of maintenance orders.

Attachment of Earnings is a legal process in civil litigation by which a defendant's wages or other earnings are taken to pay for a debt.

Attachment of earnings orders required the debtor to certify their own income and this was frequently misstated.

A company which refused to make attachment of earnings deductions against one poll tax offender, was fined £200 by magistrates.

(One method of enforcement is to have the action transferred to the county court for enforcement, by an attachment of earnings order.)

The court can make an order instructing the employer to make deductions from the person's wages or salary at source - an attachment of earnings order.

Attachment of earnings, also known as garnishment, is a process whereby the creditor attaches money owed to the debtor by the debtor's employer.

Courts can issue you with attachment of earnings orders (AEOs), which mean that you must take money directly from an employee's earnings.

The Agency will have powers to trace absent parents through Inland Revenue records and to enforce payments through measures such as attachments of earnings.

Creditors can also apply for an attachment of earnings which would oblige the debtor's employer to deduct monies from their salary and send them to the court.

First, will the Minister give an assurance tonight that his Department will start to collect statistics on the attachment of earnings orders and how many have been collected or returned?

An attachment of earnings order requires a debtor's employer to deduct monies direct from the debtor's wage packet and pay off the debt over a period of months.

Personal debt that can be repaid from income but is not being repaid may be obtained via garnishment or attachment of earnings, which deduct debt service from wages.

Download leaflet EX323 about attachment of earnings orders from the HM Courts & Tribunals Service website (PDF, 240K) - Opens in a new window.

Section 91 and Schedule 15 amend the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 to allow deductions to be made on the basis of a fixed rate, similar to the scheme already used for Council Tax arrears.

The Child Support Agency (CSA) has designed deduction from earnings orders (DEOs) to work in a similar way to attachment of earnings orders, which are used to collect outstanding debts and fines.

You can read answers to frequently asked questions about how attachment of earnings orders are processed on the Centralised Attachments of Earnings Payments (CAPS) website - Opens in a new window.

You must make deductions from SSP in respect of PAYE, NICs, student loan repayments, attachment of earnings orders and pension contributions in the same way as you'd make these deductions from normal pay.

If you charge for the deduction from the pay of an employee in compliance with an attachment of earnings order, this is seen as reimbursement for expenses incurred in carrying out a statutory duty and is outside the scope of VAT.

The other type of garnishment, also known as attachment (or attachment of earnings), requires the garnishee to deliver all the defendant's money and/or property in the hands of the garnishee at the time of service of process to the court, to be paid over to the plaintiff.

If Mr Rich found that way of recovering what he had lent Mr Dunn in good faith unpalatable, he could apply to the county court for an 'Attachment of Earnings Order' instructing Dunn's employer to make weekly or monthly deductions from his earnings.