What is an attachment of earnings?
Using an attachment of earnings you can have the court order the debtor’s employer to make deductions from his or her earnings and send these payments directly to you. You can attach wages, commissions, and bonuses. You cannot attach Social Security, old age pensions or disability pensions. Servicemen’s pay can only be attached through the Defence Council. You can attach wages of an owner of a limited company, but not that of a self-employed debtor, such as a proprietor or partner in a firm. This method of enforcing will usually only result in payment if the debtor is in secure employment. If he or she moves job, then you have to make a fresh application in respect of any new employment the debtor goes on to.
