Wage foreclosure: what does it consist of?

We speak of wage garnishment, when a creditor of your employee asks you to withdraw a certain sum directly from the latter's wages. This levy then takes place without the employee's consent, by decision of the court.

As a garnishee, you must pay each month to the registry of the court a sum at most equal to the garnishable portion of the salary.

Seizure on wages: amount of the elusive fraction 2021

In order to give the employee a living, you can only enter part of his remuneration, determined by a scale which takes into account his annual remuneration and the number of dependents.

Normally, this scale of wage garnishments and transfers is set each year by decree based on changes in the household consumer price index published by INSEE.

However, since this index changed little between August 2019 and August 2020, the scale was not reassessed this year. The 2020 scale therefore continues to apply in 2021.

However, there is an absolutely elusive fraction equal to the amount of active solidarity income (RSA) for a single person (Code