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Wage-Garnishment Response

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-hardship

Respond fast when your wages are being garnished or about to be — the deadlines, the exemptions that can reduce or stop it, and the steps that protect your paycheck. Use when asked they're garnishing my wages, how do I stop wage garnishment, I got a garnishment notice, or can they take my whole paycheck. Produces the urgent-deadline map, the exemptions that may reduce or stop it (income caps, protected funds like benefits, head-of-household), how to file a claim of exemption, options to resolve the underlying debt, and where to get legal aid immediately. Not legal advice; centers fast legal-aid help.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“They're garnishing my wages — how do I stop it?”“I got a wage garnishment notice, what do I do?”“Can they legally take my entire paycheck?”“How do I claim an exemption to reduce a garnishment?”“Is it too late to fight a garnishment that already started?”

What to give it

The stage — notice received / already being deducted, and any date on the paperwork
The debt — what it's for (consumer, taxes, child support — rules differ sharply)
Your situation — income level, whether the funds involved are protected (benefits), household
Where — region (garnishment limits, exemptions, and deadlines are local)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

Surfaces the response deadline as the first, urgent item
Lists pay caps and protected/exempt funds to claim
Explains filing a claim of exemption/objection
Includes resolving or contesting the underlying debt
Routes to legal aid immediately given tight timelines

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Missing the objection window** and losing the chance to reduce it.
**Not claiming exemptions** you qualify for.
**Assuming your whole paycheck** can be taken (caps usually apply).
**Ignoring protected funds** like benefits that often can't be touched.
**Trying to beat a deadline alone** instead of getting fast legal aid.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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