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Ordinary garnishments Under Title III, the amount that an employer may garnish from an employee in any workweek or pay period is the lesser of: 25% of disposable earnings -or- The amount by which disposable earnings are 30 times greater than the federal minimum wage.

Your wages CANNOT be garnished for collection of a debt or a judgment incurred here in South Carolina. Wage garnishment is prohibited in South Carolina EXCEPT in 3 cases: 1) If money is owed to the government (i.e., unpaid taxes, defaulted federal student loans)

But federal law allows you to keep an amount that's equivalent to 30 times the current federal minimum wage per week. Unlike the garnishment of a student loan, the IRS is not limited in the wages it can take through garnishment. The South Carolina Department of Revenue may levy up to 25% of an employee's income.

For ordinary garnishments (i.e., those not for support, bankruptcy, or any state or federal tax), the weekly amount may not exceed the lesser of two figures: 25% of the employee's disposable earnings, or the amount by which an employee's disposable earnings are greater than 30 times the federal minimum wage (currently ...

South Carolina is one of the few states in the country where a creditor of a consumer debt can't garnish your wages. But for some other types of debts, you might still lose some of your paycheck to a garnishment.

Garnishment generally prohibited In general, South Carolina law prohibits most private parties from garnishing your wages for consumer debt. As a result, most creditors cannot seek garnishment of your wages for credit card debts, purchases of goods on store credit, cash advances and other forms of consumer debt.