Montgomery County, PA

Table of Contents

1. What is SCDU?
2. What address should I use to send wage attachment payments to SCDU?
3. Should I send a list or payment coupons with the wage attachment payments?
4. What phone number do I use to reach SCDU?
5. What are acceptable forms of payment?
6. How can I use EFT or EDI to send my employees' support payments to SCDU?

• SCDU (Statewide Collection and Disbursement Unit) is the single statewide unit for the collection and disbursement of child and spousal support. 
• Employers will send support wage attachment payments to SCDU, instead of to individual County Domestic Relations Sections.

• PA SCDU
  PO Box 69112
  Harrisburg, PA 17106-9112

• For employers with less than 20 employees:  SCDU will mail bills and coupons in the month prior to the due date.  Coupons will also be available through the SCDU website starting 10-2-99. 
  Employers should use these coupons when remitting payments to SCDU. 
• Large employers will provide their own listing of employees and payment amounts.

Starting 8-2-99, employers can call SCDU's Toll  Free Employer Customer Service number 877-676-9580 (Customer Service TDD 877-676-9582).

Employers should submit payment using one of the following forms:

• check
• money order
• EFT

Make checks payable to PA SCDU

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)

EFT processes employer payments by directly transferring funds from the employer's bank account to SCDU's account at First Union National Bank.  Because the transfer is electronic, there is no need to write a check.  Since EFT also transmits all employee data, there is no need to mail any paperwork.

Standard EFT Formats

The accepted file formats for EFT payments are Cash Concentration and Disbursement (CCD+) and Corporate Trade Exchange (CTX).

For further information on EFT:

• call 877-676-9580, or
• E-mail one of SCDU's friendly employer outreach specialists:
  E-mail SCDU Employer Outreach Specialist Nicole Wagner
  

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

EDI is an easy way for employers, especially large ones, to submit payments to SCDU for employees with income withholding orders.  This procedure allows employers to send employee data in an electronic form, together with a check for the total amount.   Because EDI stores information from previous transmissions, an employer with a stable workforce need only change the withholding dates at time of transmission.

Standard EDI formats

Employers may send their employee data in the following formats:

• 9-track cartridge tapes
• 3.5" floppy disks
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Free EDI Software

User-friendly, diskette-based software is available to employers who want to use the EDI system.  Pre-loaded with the employer's withholding list, the Employee Diskette Processing product simplifies the remittance process. 

To order your Free EDI software

• Click here for a Software Order Form and order instructions, or
• Call 877-676-9580, or
• Order the software from the SCDU website at www.pachildsupport.com.