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    Jan 21, 2010, 07:01 AM
    I have a wage garnishment out of my pay check for ambulance bill can they do this
    I have a wage garnishment from SC levy against my paycheck for anmbulance bill, can my employer do this
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    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?
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    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?
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    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
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    Jan 21, 2010, 08:34 AM

    There is no garnishment order or judgement.
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    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.
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    Jan 21, 2010, 01:36 PM

    As ScottGem noted above there has to a judgement in order to garnish your wages.
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    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
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    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.

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