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Last Updated: 2025-05-30
Concept: Withholding Order Priorities (FRA)

Concept: Withholding Order Priorities (FRA)

Workday automatically applies these processing priorities, which you can override, to withholding orders:
  • 100 - Alimony pension.
  • 300 - Administrative seizure.
  • 400 - Debt.

Withholding Orders with the Same Priority and Different Order Dates

During payroll processing, Workday uses the order priority to determine which orders to process first. When 2 withholding orders have the same processing priority, Workday uses the order date to determine processing priorities.
Anne has 3 withholding orders that all have a begin date of February 15, 2020:
Withholding Order
Amount or Balance (EUR)
Order Date
Alimony pension
100 per month
February 1, 2020
Administrative seizure 1
1000
January 1, 2020
Administrative seizure 2
500
February 1, 2020
You haven't modified the default withholding order priorities.
In February, Anne has 1000 EUR disposable earnings for withholding orders. Workday calculates these withholding order payments:
Withholding Order
Withholding Order Amount (EUR)
Alimony pension
100
Administrative seizure 1
900
Administrative seizure 2
0

Withholding Orders with the Same Priority and Order Dates

When 2 orders of the same type have the same order date, Workday distributes the disposable earnings based on the remaining order balances.
When 1 order has a limit below its allocated disposable amount, Workday distributes the exceeding disposable amount among the other orders, based on the order balances.
Mark has 4 withholding orders that all have a begin date of February 15, 2020. They also all have the same order date:
Withholding Order
Amount or Balance (EUR)
Order Date
Alimony pension
100 per month
February 1, 2020
Administrative seizure 1
1000
February 1, 2020
Administrative seizure 2
500
February 1, 2020
Administrative seizure 3
500
February 1, 2020
You haven't modified the default withholding order priorities.
In February, Mark has 1100 EUR disposable earnings for withholding orders. Workday calculates these withholding order payments:
Withholding Order
Withholding Order Amount (EUR)
Alimony pension
100
Administrative seizure 1
500
Administrative seizure 2
250
Administrative seizure 3
250
If you add a limit of 400 EUR to Administrative seizure 1, Workday distributes the remaining 100 EUR among Administrative seizure 2 and Administrative seizure 3:
Withholding Order
Withholding Order Amount (EUR)
Alimony pension
100
Administrative seizure 1
400
Administrative seizure 2
300
Administrative seizure 3
300