Employers & Payroll Service Providers
Income Withholding
Notices from other states
When you receive an income withholding notice from another state, and the employee’s principal state of employment is Wisconsin, you should comply with Wisconsin laws for determining the following:
- The employer's fee for processing income withholdings
- The maximum amount permitted
to be withheld from the employee’s income
- The time frames within which the employer must implement the support order
and forward child support payments to the issuing state
- The priorities for withholding, and allocating income withheld if an employee has multiple support withholdings
A Wisconsin employer who complies with an income withholding notice issued by another state in accordance with the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) cannot be held liable for withholding child support from an employee’s income.
A Wisconsin employer who willfully fails to comply with an income withholding notice issued by another state is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an notice issued by a Wisconsin tribunal.
If an employee contests a direct income withholding notice issued by another state, the employee must provide a notice of contest to the employer who received the income withholding notice.
The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement has developed a standard notice of income withholding to facilitate uniform processing of interstate income withholding.
Mailing Your Payments to Other States
Remittance information is included in the income withholding notice that you received.
CCPA and Notices from Other States
Wisconsin employers must comply with an income withholding notice issued by another state in accordance with the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA).
If you have an employee with income withholding notices from two different states, but the CCPA limits prevent you from withholding the total amount due, you will need to prorate the amounts sent to the two states.
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