Authorization for Payroll Deductions

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Public Officers and Employees
  4. Employees' Insurance and Benefits Plans
  5. Employee Benefit Plan Council
  6. Authorization for Payroll Deductions

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  1. In order to carry out the provisions of the flexible employee benefit plan, the head of each department, agency, authority, county department of health, the Federal-State Shipping Point Inspection Service, the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, or local school system is authorized to deduct or reduce from salary or wages voluntarily designated amounts by his employees for purchasing insurance or other welfare benefits.
  2. Records of benefit selections, payroll deductions, and other individual account information shall be maintained as confidential by the flexible benefit plan.The records shall not be disclosed except as necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article or as otherwise authorized in writing by the employee.This prohibition shall not bar federal, state, or local tax authorities from such access to the records as may be necessary to establish the tax status or liability of an employee or other individual.

(Code 1981, §45-18-53, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 441, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1247, § 3; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1425, § 2.)


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