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Diana Gause
Jan 21, 2010, 07:01 AM
I have a wage garnishment from SC levy against my paycheck for anmbulance bill, can my employer do this
J_9
Jan 21, 2010, 07:13 AM
If there is a judgment against you, your employer has no choice. Do you owe the bill? Have you not paid it?
ScottGem
Jan 21, 2010, 07:28 AM
To obtain a wage garnishment, the creditor has to obtain a judgment. Once they have a judgment they can obtain a garnishment order. Your employer is legally bound to honor such a court order.
For it to get this far, you had to have ignored many requests for payment. Why haven't you tried to settle before it got this far?
Diana Gause
Jan 21, 2010, 08:31 AM
I have no no court order or civil order against me by the courts. The ambulace collection company went to SC levy wages and turned in ambulance bills that dated back to 2001 - 2009, at address I have never lived at, and because they went through the SC wage and labor, my employer just started deducting my pay on that reason
Diana Gause
Jan 21, 2010, 08:34 AM
There is no garnishment order or judgement.
J_9
Jan 21, 2010, 08:35 AM
Please be patient. We are all volunteers here. We don't sit behind a bank of computers and answer questions. We are real people with real lives and real jobs. It can take anywhere from a matter of minutes to a day to get responses.
DownUnder
Jan 21, 2010, 01:36 PM
As ScottGem noted above there has to a judgement in order to garnish your wages.
Fr_Chuck
Jan 21, 2010, 07:12 PM
Your employer has to have been served with a court order to garnish your wages.
They must have gotten a judgement without your knowledge, you will have to go back to with the judgement over turned because of no service.
On the other hand, if you really do owe it, why not just pay it
ScottGem
Jan 21, 2010, 07:26 PM
Ask your employer for copies of the order of garnishment. It will provide list a court and docket number. You can use that info to find out what happened.