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Attachment of Earnings Order

If a CCJ is not paid, the creditor is entitled to apply to courts to have to money deducted from your wages. The level of instalments made will be decided by the courts. Any Attachment of Earnings Orders related to Council Tax is decided by a magistrate's court and are dealt with in a different system.