bethdtown wrote:Hi!
We received a letter from our local Domestic Relations that an employee of our must now have his Child Support Payments automatically deducted from his payroll and have his employer (us) pay the state on his behalf.
Does anyone have any idea on how to set this up in both the payroll side as well as the payable side that it is automatically done?
I am the sole person in the office and I do
everything! (payroll, payables, contributions, membership, typing, graphics, the list could go on.) I really do not have the time to figure this out for each payroll/payable day.
Any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Beth,
what version of Powerchurch are you using ?? That would help us give you good directions.
That said, an overview would be:
1. Create a liability account in Funds Accounting to collect these funds. It would be setup much the same way as that for Federal or State taxes.
2. Create a vendor in Accounts Payable for the office you would send the money to.
3. Create a Payroll Deduction item for this. I would think that it is a fixed amount so that does make it easier. You would use the liability account created in step 1.
4. Add the Payroll Item to the employees pay items.
5. Setup a repeating item in Accounts Payable that you would release each month to create the check.
Finally, I hope the employee in question knows about this requirement set by the state for this deduction. If not, you should let him know, you don't want an irate employee coming at you because he didn't know about this.
