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5 bucks a week to send my child support?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kae3106" data-source="post: 1218197" data-attributes="member: 27557"><p>I offered to put the OP in contact with the garnishment supervisor to see if it was possible to reduce his fees. I'm still waiting for his message so I can give him that phone number. If he only posts here and doesn't reach out to the people who can actually help him, nothing will change.</p><p></p><p>I only worked briefly in that department but it always bothered me that the weekly employees were hit so much harder with fees than monthly employees when the states specified a "per payment" fee instead of a "per month" fee. This may have made sense back when checks had to be printed and mailed each week. Now that so many of them are electronic, this type of fee seems outdated. Perhaps a one time set up fee would be more appropriate but these changes would have to be made by the states. </p><p></p><p>We have tens of thousands of active wage attachments at any given time. The system is programmed with the state fee maximums because it's not possible to evaluate each account for what might be appropriate or fair for that individual employee. A smaller company may be able to do that but our volume is just too high. If this became, say a contractual issue, they could probably do some programming to look at the employee's part time/full time status or average wage to pro-rate the fee to a certain level. But unless there is a lot of high level pressure on this topic, I don't see a wide spread change happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kae3106, post: 1218197, member: 27557"] I offered to put the OP in contact with the garnishment supervisor to see if it was possible to reduce his fees. I'm still waiting for his message so I can give him that phone number. If he only posts here and doesn't reach out to the people who can actually help him, nothing will change. I only worked briefly in that department but it always bothered me that the weekly employees were hit so much harder with fees than monthly employees when the states specified a "per payment" fee instead of a "per month" fee. This may have made sense back when checks had to be printed and mailed each week. Now that so many of them are electronic, this type of fee seems outdated. Perhaps a one time set up fee would be more appropriate but these changes would have to be made by the states. We have tens of thousands of active wage attachments at any given time. The system is programmed with the state fee maximums because it's not possible to evaluate each account for what might be appropriate or fair for that individual employee. A smaller company may be able to do that but our volume is just too high. If this became, say a contractual issue, they could probably do some programming to look at the employee's part time/full time status or average wage to pro-rate the fee to a certain level. But unless there is a lot of high level pressure on this topic, I don't see a wide spread change happening. [/QUOTE]
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