As an employer you may be asked to make deductions from an employee's pay towards benefit overpayments and Social Fund loans that the employee owes to the Department for Communities (DfC). This method of recovery is known as a Direct Earnings Attachment or DEA.
The DfC Debt Management will write to you with an instruction to set up and maintain a DEA if any of your employees are affected.
Employers may be asked to make deductions towards benefit overpayments and Social Fund loans that an employee owes the Department for Communities (DfC). This is called a Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA).
For more information see our Direct Earnings Attachment guide