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5 bucks a week to send my child support?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kae3106" data-source="post: 1212140" data-attributes="member: 27557"><p><strong>Re: Ups is making a huge profit off of me and thousands of others!</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It doesn't cost the company $5 per week to process the child support. However, the state the poster lives in ALLOWS employers to take a $5 per payment administrative fee. (assuming he's set up right) UPS is going to take the maximum fee allowed by law in each state as are most other companies. Here's a link that shows the fee allowed in each state. <a href="http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-rights-book/chapter2-9.html" target="_blank">State Laws on Wage Garnishments | Nolo.com</a> Employers are prohibited from terminating an employee over garnishments but they are allowed to charge this fee to recoup their costs related to processing it since it does create work for the employer.</p><p></p><p>Also, it's much easier to process the United Way than wage attachments. The UW is deducted and collects in an account until it is paid to UW in a bulk payment. (not sure if we remit weekly or monthly...either way, it's a big wire payment) The deductions are set up once per year and there is very little changed in the payroll system during the year. It's also largely automated now that we do the pledges online and the data is fed to the payroll system.</p><p></p><p>Wage attachments have to be sent within a very specific time frame to thousands of different places (factoring in Fed, states, courts, creditors, lawyers, etc). IRS levies, student loans, child support, personal judgments, and so on all have different rules. Each order received must be read by a UPSer and set up in the system. We also get flooded with child support orders after peak season. UPS hires thousands of people for peak and dutifully reports their employment to the states. A couple of months later, the states have matched up the employment lists to the child support lists and sends us wage attachment orders. However, by that point, all of the peak hires are gone. We still have to fill out the paperwork for each person stating he doesn't work for us anymore. There are also the dozens of phone calls from lawyers and angry custodial parents to deal with each day. </p><p></p><p>It's not just a simple payroll deduction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kae3106, post: 1212140, member: 27557"] [b]Re: Ups is making a huge profit off of me and thousands of others![/b] It doesn't cost the company $5 per week to process the child support. However, the state the poster lives in ALLOWS employers to take a $5 per payment administrative fee. (assuming he's set up right) UPS is going to take the maximum fee allowed by law in each state as are most other companies. Here's a link that shows the fee allowed in each state. [url=http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-rights-book/chapter2-9.html]State Laws on Wage Garnishments | Nolo.com[/url] Employers are prohibited from terminating an employee over garnishments but they are allowed to charge this fee to recoup their costs related to processing it since it does create work for the employer. Also, it's much easier to process the United Way than wage attachments. The UW is deducted and collects in an account until it is paid to UW in a bulk payment. (not sure if we remit weekly or monthly...either way, it's a big wire payment) The deductions are set up once per year and there is very little changed in the payroll system during the year. It's also largely automated now that we do the pledges online and the data is fed to the payroll system. Wage attachments have to be sent within a very specific time frame to thousands of different places (factoring in Fed, states, courts, creditors, lawyers, etc). IRS levies, student loans, child support, personal judgments, and so on all have different rules. Each order received must be read by a UPSer and set up in the system. We also get flooded with child support orders after peak season. UPS hires thousands of people for peak and dutifully reports their employment to the states. A couple of months later, the states have matched up the employment lists to the child support lists and sends us wage attachment orders. However, by that point, all of the peak hires are gone. We still have to fill out the paperwork for each person stating he doesn't work for us anymore. There are also the dozens of phone calls from lawyers and angry custodial parents to deal with each day. It's not just a simple payroll deduction. [/QUOTE]
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