Student loan wage garnishment
An employee of mine (here in SC) has unpaid student loans from California. A collection agency has been calling at the business, etc. They sent a wage garnishment notice "Order of Withholding From Earnings". This is not a document issued by a court. It looks like something done with MS Word. The header is from the Cal Student Aid Commission, C/O (the collection agency). The signature is the collection agency.
Is this a legal document if it is not issued by a court? We do not want to deduct earnings from our employee illegally. They want us to tell them how much we will deduct and send to them. If this is not a legal document then it must border on mail fraud.
Thanks for any advice.
Levi Groons