Made garnishment payments to SS

Hello there, @Jerriholt. 

Thanks for taking your time to post your concern today. I'm here to guide you in correcting your payroll liabilities to affected employees. 

Since the garnishment payments haven't cashed, you'll need to correct the information by directly editing the paycheck. Here's how: 

1. Find and open the employee’s paycheck.
2. Select Unlock Net Pay at the bottom of the Review Paycheck window.
3. Override the figures to correct the deductions
4. Review the information to make sure it's all correct, then click OK.
5. Reprint the paycheck.

Though, you can recreate the deleted paycheck in QuickBooks Desktop. Check out this article for more insights: Create a replacement paycheck.

Then, remove the deduction item amount from the liability balances. Here’s how to adjust payroll liability:

1. Go to the Employees menu, then choose Payroll Taxes and Liabilities.
2. Select Adjust Payroll Liability.
3. Set the right dates and select the Employee radio button.
4. Under the ITEM NAME column, select the tax item you’re working with.
5. Put the negative form of the excess amount under the AMOUNT column, then click OK.

Just in case you'll need to change incorrect payroll items on paycheck in the future, read through this article: Update Incorrect Payroll Item Used On Paychecks. 

I'm here anytime you have other payroll concerns. Have a great day. 

Hi there, @Jerriholt.

Hope you’re doing great. I wanted to see how everything is going about your concern in correcting your payroll liablitied you had yesterday. Was it resolved?

Do you need any additional help or clarification? If you do, just let me know. I’d be happy to help you at any time.

Looking forward to your reply. Have a pleasant day ahead!

The paycheck had already been deposited. It was the garnishment that hadn't been used and needs to be reimbursed to the employee.

The paycheck was already deposited, so can't be altered. The wage garnishment was not cashed and needs to be reimbursed to the employee.  How do you do that?

Hi user119,

Thank you for joining in on the thread. I'll help you with the garnishment of your employee.

The road map is to adjust the garnishment liability to remove it from the Pay Liabilities section in your QuickBooks. Then, to reimburse the garnished amount, we can create an Addition item type, add it to the next paycheck of the employee, and enter the garnished amount.

Before we start, back up your company file since this adjustment involves data from the last year. It's always a good idea to back up your file when you enter transactions such as this.

Adjust the garnishment liability.

1. Click the Employees menu
2. Select Payroll Liabilities and Taxes and then Adjust Payroll Liabilities.
3. Enter the details of the liability adjustment.
   
4. Click OK to save the adjustment. The liability will be removed at this point.

Create an addition/reimbursement item.

1. Go to Lists and choose Payroll Item List.
2. Right-click anywhere and choose New.
3. Select Custom Setup and click Next.
4. Choose Addition and click Next.
5. Name the item to something like Reimbursement or Garnishment Reimb. and click Next.
6. For the Expense account, select the liability account that is also assigned to the garnishment item. That way, when you use this item to the next paycheck of the employee, the liability will reverse. This is also the reason why we chose Do not affect accounts when we created the liability adjustment. However, I highly suggest checking this with your accountant.
7. Set the Tax Tracking type to None and select Next.
8. Click Next until you reach the Default rate and limit section.
9. In the lower field, enter the amount that is just equivalent to the amount to be reimbursed.
10. In the Limit type drop-down list, choose One-time limit so you can't use this item on another transaction because it has a special setup. We defined the Expense account in Step 6.
11. Click Finish.

Add the reimbursement item to the next paycheck.

1. Crete a paycheck the usual way and then open the paycheck detail before saving it.
2. In the Other Payroll Items section, add the Reimbursement item.
3. Enter the amount and click OK.
   

Here are some articles for your additional reference:

• Adjust payroll liabilities in QuickBooks Desktop
• Create a non-taxable reimbursement payroll item

Feel free to share an update after following the steps above. Like what katherinejoyceO said, we want to make sure that your concern is addressed. Take care!