From April 2025, The Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 comes into force, bringing changes to the amounts deducted from earnings before applying arrestment orders in Scotland.
The Regulations will increase protection for those in debt by raising the amount earned before deductions are taken from the earnings by the arrestment.
In addition, they will make some minor adjustments to the table bandings that determine how much someone will have deducted from their earnings, if they earn above the protected minimum amount.
The last review took place and was effective from 6th April 2023 with the prior year 2022 also seeing a revision applied.
Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom where change usually applies only to newly issued Attachment of Earnings Orders, Earnings Arrestment changes apply to all pre-existing orders in force.
The new rates are found in the tables below:
