attachment of earnings order

In the United Kingdom, an attachment of earning order can stop money being paid to a defendant.

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

(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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.