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S_NE PASS-23 — five bounded corrections to reviewed PASS-20

Actual fresh check: October 26, 2026, Pacific / October 26, 2026 UTC Status: Same-coordinator bounded correction to the reviewed PASS-20 bank-account report; not independent review. PASS-20 remains immutable. Only the affected passages, source annotations, claims, matrix rows, and coverage cells below are replaced or qualified. PASS-21 and PASS-22 remain unreviewed and are not used as premises.

Five-group disposition

GROUP 1 — Part 212’s two distinct two-business-day clocks

1A. Replacement for PASS-20 §D2

Initial examination of the garnishment order — §212.4(a)

Before taking any other action related to the garnishment order, the financial institution must examine the order to determine whether it contains a Notice of Right to Garnish Federal Benefits. That examination must occur no later than two business days following receipt of the order.

If the notice is present and was issued by the United States or a state child-support enforcement agency as specified by the regulation, the bank follows its otherwise customary garnishment procedures and does not apply the ordinary account-review and protected-amount process in §§212.5 and 212.6. eCFR

Account review — §212.5(a)

If the order does not contain the qualifying federal-benefits notice, the institution performs the account review no later than two business days after both:

1. receipt of the garnishment order; and
2. receipt of sufficient information to identify the account holder, when that identifying information was not already included in the order.

Thus, the account-review period can begin later than the initial order-examination period if the order lacks enough identifying information. eCFR

Permitted large-batch branch

When a creditor transmits a batch of a large number of orders and affirmatively permits a later review date, §212.5(a)(2) permits the financial institution to conduct the reviews on that later date, provided the treatment is consistent with the orders and the institution preserves the required records. The exception is not an unrestricted extension selected unilaterally by the bank. eCFR+1

Priority of account review

The institution must perform the account review before taking other actions that would affect funds in the account. This preserves the automatic federal-benefit calculation before an ordinary freeze, fee debit, or turnover affects the protected amount. eCFR

1B. Replacement for original PASS-20 C028

A financial institution must first examine the garnishment order for the qualifying federal-benefits notice no later than two business days following receipt of the order. If the notice is absent, it must separately perform the account review no later than two business days after receiving both the order and sufficient account-holder identifying information when that information was not contained in the order. A qualifying creditor-authorized large-batch date can alter the ordinary review date under §212.5(a)(2).

Sources: 31 C.F.R. §§212.4(a), 212.5(a)(1)–(2), and 212.5(e). Consequence: “Two business days after order plus identifying information” describes the account-review clock, not the earlier initial notice examination. Confidence: High. eCFR+2

1C. Replacement matrix rows

1D. Coverage replacement

GROUP 2 — Pruss vacatur, dissent attribution, and deposited-wage hold

2A. Replacement for PASS-20 S022 and §C2

The 1999 Bankruptcy Appellate Panel opinion in In re Pruss, 235 B.R. 430, involved a Nebraska attorney’s right to unpaid fees or accounts receivable for personal legal services. The BAP majority reversed and remanded. Judge Dreher’s dissent begins at printed page 11, zero-based PDF index 10. U.S. Court of Appeals+2

The discussion stating that CCPA protection generally ends once the debtor has control over compensation and deposits it into a checking account appears at printed pages 24–25, zero-based PDF indices 23–24, inside Judge Dreher’s dissent, not the majority opinion. U.S. Court of Appeals+1

The underlying Pruss controversy was later dismissed, the Eighth Circuit determined the appeal was moot and directed vacatur, and the BAP’s opinion was vacated. In re Parsons records that history at printed page 7, zero-based PDF index 6. Parsons then adopted the reasoning of the Pruss majority for the treatment of a Missouri debtor’s commissions; it did not adopt the dissent’s deposited-payment passage and did not decide Nebraska bank-account exemption law. U.S. Court of Appeals+1

Correct bounded treatment

Pruss may be described only as:

• historical, vacated BAP reasoning;
• majority reasoning about an attorney’s personal-services receivables;
• a separate dissent containing the checking-account discussion; and
• nonprecedential after vacatur.

Parsons is a published Eighth Circuit BAP decision applying Missouri law to commissions and adopting the Pruss majority’s personal-services reasoning. It is not a Nebraska Supreme Court holding that Nebraska wage-garnishment percentages do—or do not—follow all wages into deposit accounts.

2B. Replacement for original PASS-20 C020

No controlling Nebraska authority was verified establishing that §25-1558’s wage-percentage limits automatically carry over to all wages after deposit into a bank account. The contrary proposition also is not established through Pruss: its deposited-payment discussion appeared in a dissent, the BAP opinion was later vacated as moot, and Parsons separately applied majority reasoning to Missouri commissions rather than deciding Nebraska deposit protection. Deposited wages may still be protected under another applicable exemption, including §25-1552, depending on the actual facts.

Confidence: High for the source-status correction; HOLD for the definitive Nebraska deposited-wage rule. U.S. Court of Appeals+3

2C. Replacement for original PASS-20 S022

2D. Failed reproduction routes

The following two supplied reproduction routes failed during the coordinator’s checks and were not retried or used as authority:

Plain text

https://app.midpage.ai/document/pruss-v-butler-in-re-6988248
https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/pruss-v-butler-in-re-pruss-bap8-2000

The official Parsons opinion was sufficient to verify the vacatur history.

GROUP 3 — Nebraska procedural precision

3A. Answer-challenge trigger: replacement for C013, §B9, §G, and matrix row

Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1030 has two branches:

1. dissatisfaction with the garnishee’s interrogatory answers; and
2. alleged failure to comply with a court order to deliver property, pay money into court, or furnish an undertaking.

For the unsatisfactory-answer branch, Huntington v. Pedersen holds that the 20-day period begins when the garnishee’s answers are filed with the court. It does not begin upon service on the creditor or the creditor’s actual receipt. The controlling body discussion is at printed pages 305–306, zero-based PDF indices 11–12. Nebraska.gov+3

If the creditor does not apply within that 20-day period, §25-1030 requires the garnishee’s release and discharge in that garnishment-liability proceeding. That consequence does not create universal immunity from a later valid writ concerning different property, a different service date, or a later obligation. Nebraska Legislature+1

Replacement original C013

A creditor dissatisfied with a bank’s filed interrogatory answers must file the §25-1030 application to determine garnishee liability within 20 days after the answers are filed with the court. The trigger is not service on or receipt by the creditor. Failure to file timely requires release and discharge of the garnishee in the affected liability proceeding.

Confidence: High. Nebraska Legislature+2

Separate court-order-noncompliance branch

The statute also refers to an application following noncompliance with a court order, but it does not expressly identify whether that 20-day period starts at:

• entry of the order;
• service of the order;
• the compliance date stated in the order;
• the first act of noncompliance; or
• another event.

Huntington decided the filed-answer branch. The trigger for the separate order-noncompliance branch remains unresolved. Nebraska Legislature

Replacement matrix row

3B. Debtor mailing list: replacement for PASS-20 §B6

Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1011 separates service on the garnishee from the creditor’s certified mailing to the judgment debtor.

Served on the garnishee under subsection (1)

• summons and order of garnishment;
• duplicate interrogatories;
• notice to judgment debtor; and
• request-for-hearing form.

Mailed to the judgment debtor under subsection (2)

• copy of the summons and order of garnishment;
• notice to judgment debtor; and
• request-for-hearing form.

The statute does not list the interrogatories among the documents that subsection (2) requires the creditor to mail to the debtor. A Judicial Branch packet, local practice, or voluntary mailing may include additional papers, but that is distinct from the statutory minimum list. Nebraska Legislature

3C. Financial-institution designation pinpoints

PASS-20 S002’s designation discussion is corrected from “§25-1010(1)–(3)” to:

• §25-1010(4) for the financial institution’s designated Nebraska location, publication of the designation, treatment of service at a nondesignated branch, and statewide effect across Nebraska branches; and
• §25-1056(6) for the matching postjudgment garnishment provisions. Nebraska Legislature+3

No current institution-specific designation roster was authenticated in this bounded correction. The legal route is verified; actual service on any particular bank remains held.

3D. Procedure-coverage replacement

GROUP 4 — source and observed-version annotations

4A. Replacement for PASS-20 S004 — full URLs

Nebraska garnishee-answer and liability statutes, Nebraska Legislature:

Plain text

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1026
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1027
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1028
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1029
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1030
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1030.01
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1030.02
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1030.03
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1031
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1031.01

The complete operative current sections were freshly read on October 26, 2026. They cover the garnishee’s sworn answers, payment or delivery into court, failure to answer, transfer orders, liability challenges, corporate service, burden at trial, third-party intervention, discharge, and conclusiveness. Nebraska Legislature+9

4B. Replacement for PASS-20 S017 — full URLs

Nebraska source-specific exemptions, Nebraska Legislature:

Plain text

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1553
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=48-149
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=48-647
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=68-148
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=68-1013
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1563.01
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=44-371

The complete material current clauses were freshly read on October 26, 2026. They remain limited to EITC refunds, workers’ compensation, unemployment, public assistance, retirement interests, and insurance or annuity benefits. No broader sector dossier is implied. Nebraska Legislature+6

4C. Replacement for PASS-20 S020 — eight direct form URLs

These are operational Judicial Branch forms and packets. They do not adjudicate ownership, exemption, balance, service validity, or entitlement to transfer. Nebraska Judicial Branch+7

CC 3:8N version qualification

PASS-20’s rendered-page observation of Rev. 03/2022 remains preserved. A same-day fresh check also produced parsed text stating Rev. 08/2026, while the rendered page still displayed 03/2022. No replacement time is inferred. The controlling statutes, not the inconsistent PDF layers, govern. Nebraska Judicial Branch+1

4D. Revenue Ruling page count

Revenue Ruling 2023-1 is a one-page PDF, not a two-page PDF. The $5,970 adjusted §25-1552 amount for 2023 through 2027 remains fully supported. The material appears at printed page 1, zero-based PDF index 0. Nebraska Department of Revenue+1

4E. Cattle National Bank body pinpoints

The body of Cattle National Bank & Trust Co. v. Watson states at printed page 963, zero-based PDF index 20, that the executions and garnishments were void because they were issued before an enforceable final judgment. At printed page 968, zero-based PDF index 25, the court concluded that the orders affected substantial rights and that the execution and garnishment proceedings commenced before final judgment were void. These body pinpoints replace reliance on only the syllabus or opening headnote. Nebraska.gov+1

4F. Schaefer Shapiro Part 212 qualification

At printed page 675, zero-based PDF index 6, Schaefer Shapiro describes the argument that only the amount captured by Part 212’s two-month account review was protected. At printed page 676, zero-based PDF index 7, the Nebraska Supreme Court explains that even assuming the federal account-review rules applied, funds exceeding that automatic amount could remain exempt under the underlying Social Security statute; the trial court’s factual finding was supported by testimony that the remaining funds were Social Security proceeds. Nebraska.gov+1

This supports PASS-20’s distinction between:

• the bank’s automatic protected amount; and
• a broader underlying exemption proved in court.

4G. Florence Lake disclosure and actual outcome

At printed pages 197–198, zero-based PDF indices 14–15, the Nebraska Supreme Court states that:

• a garnishee must answer and disclose property or credits;
• garnishee liability is measured at service; and
• the creditor acquires no greater right than the debtor had against the garnishee. Nebraska.gov+1

At printed page 204, zero-based PDF index 21, the majority held that ERISA’s anti-alienation provision prevented the creditor from acquiring rights to the 401(k) funds and affirmed that the plan administrator was not liable on the facts. The majority also preserved the administrator’s duty to answer and noted that willful refusal to answer could be addressed by contempt. Disclosure duty is therefore not itself a liability holding. The concurrence begins after the majority disposition and is not substituted for it. Nebraska.gov

4H. Correct source for joint-account ownership

P20 C048’s source attribution is corrected. Porter is a VA-benefits case and is not authority for Nebraska joint-account net-contribution ownership.

The controlling statutory source is Neb. Rev. Stat. §30-2722:

Plain text

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2722

During the parties’ lifetimes, beneficial ownership generally follows net contributions unless clear and convincing evidence establishes a different intent; spouses are presumed to own equally absent contrary proof. Florence Lake supplies only the qualified creditor-ceiling principle that the creditor obtains no greater rights than the debtor had. Nebraska Legislature+1

4I. Federal-source currentness annotations

The coordinator’s earlier direct failure for the §5301 OLRC route remains a historical access observation. The later successful direct access verifies the current page prospectively and does not rewrite the earlier failed attempt.

GROUP 5 — VA purchased-property wording

5A. Replacement for PASS-20 §E3

38 U.S.C. §5301(a)(1) broadly protects qualifying VA benefit payments before and after receipt from attachment, levy, seizure, and other legal process, subject to its express statutory exceptions.

Its second sentence does not say generally that every property purchase destroys the creditor exemption. It says that the exemption “as to taxation” does not extend to property purchased in part or wholly from the benefit payments. The phrase is textually limited to taxation. U.S. Code+2

In Porter v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., the Supreme Court held that VA benefits deposited into savings accounts remained exempt while:

• readily available as needed for the beneficiary’s support and maintenance;
• retaining the quality of money; and
• not being converted into permanent investments.

The Court’s footnote distinguished the literal tax sentence from the separate reasoning in Carrier: invested property can fall outside the statute’s initial protection because it is no longer “payments of benefits due or to become due,” not because §5301 contains a universal purchased-property clause governing all creditor process. Justia Law+3

Correct bounded rule

Plain text

VA benefits retained as money and readily available for support:
    potentially remain exempt after deposit

Benefits converted into a permanent investment or different property:
    exemption requires a separate statutory and case-specific analysis

Section 5301 purchased-property sentence:
    expressly addresses taxation, not a blanket creditor-process forfeiture

No rule is established that:

• every purchase destroys protection;
• every item acquired with VA funds is exempt;
• every savings or investment account remains protected indefinitely; or
• a claimant may move funds or acquire property to evade lawful process.

Actual benefit type, deposit path, account use, investment character, express federal exceptions, and tracing remain held.

5B. Replacement VA claim

Section 5301 protects qualifying VA benefit payments before and after receipt, subject to express exceptions. Its purchased-property sentence is expressly limited to the exemption “as to taxation.” Under Porter, deposited benefits can remain protected while readily available for support and retaining the quality of money; conversion into permanent investments can place property outside the initial benefit-payment immunity. No blanket all-purchases rule is supported.

Confidence: High. U.S. Code+2

Effect on original PASS-20 cells

S_NE-P23 source register

| Source ID | Title, issuer, full literal URL, pinpoint/read bounds | Version, status, and limitations | |---|---|---|---| | S_NE-P23-S001 | 31 C.F.R. Part 212, eCFR. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-II/subchapter-A/part-212; §§212.4(a), 212.5(a)(1)–(2), 212.5(e)–(f). | Title 31 displayed current through Oct. 22, 2026; last amended Oct. 15, 2026. Fresh 2026-10-26 PT/UTC. eCFR is authoritative but unofficial. eCFR+3 | | S_NE-P23-S002 | In re Pruss, 235 B.R. 430 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 1999). https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/99/06/986070P.pdf; majority begins printed p.1/PDF 0; Dreher dissent begins p.11/PDF 10; deposit discussion pp.24–25/PDF 23–24. | Historical published BAP opinion later vacated as moot; no precedential force. Freshly read and pages inspected 2026-10-26. U.S. Court of Appeals+3 | | S_NE-P23-S003 | In re Parsons, 262 B.R. 475 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 2001). https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/01/06/006099P.pdf; printed p.7/PDF index 6 n.8. | Final published BAP opinion; records Pruss dismissal, mootness, and vacatur; adopts majority reasoning for Missouri commissions. Fresh 2026-10-26. U.S. Court of Appeals+1 | | S_NE-P23-S004 | Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1030, Nebraska Legislature. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1030; complete section. | Current official text freshly read 2026-10-26. Separate answer and court-order-noncompliance branches; second trigger not identified. Nebraska Legislature | | S_NE-P23-S005 | Huntington v. Pedersen, 294 Neb. 294 (2016). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010005PUB; printed pp.305–306/PDF indices 11–12. | Final published Nebraska Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and pages inspected. Filed-answer trigger and mandatory discharge. Nebraska.gov+1 | | S_NE-P23-S006 | Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1011, Nebraska Legislature. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1011; subsections (1)–(2). | Current official text freshly read 2026-10-26. Distinguishes garnishee service packet from debtor certified-mail packet. Nebraska Legislature | | S_NE-P23-S007 | Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1010, Nebraska Legislature. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1010; subsection (4). | Current official text freshly read 2026-10-26. Financial-institution designated-service route. Nebraska Legislature+1 | | S_NE-P23-S008 | Neb. Rev. Stat. §25-1056, Nebraska Legislature. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1056; subsection (6). | Current official text freshly read 2026-10-26. Matching postjudgment financial-institution service provisions. Nebraska Legislature+1 | | S_NE-P23-S009 | Nebraska garnishee statutes §§25-1026–25-1031.01, full literal URLs listed in §4A above. | Complete current operative sections freshly read 2026-10-26. Replaces abbreviated ellipses. Nebraska Legislature+9 | | S_NE-P23-S010 | Nebraska source-specific exemptions, full literal URLs listed in §4B above. | Current official operative sections freshly read 2026-10-26. Replaces abbreviated ellipses. Nebraska Legislature+6 | | S_NE-P23-S011 | Nebraska Judicial Branch forms, eight full literal URLs in §4C. | Versions observed from 2015–2026; key pages read. CC 3:8N contains conflicting 08/2026 parsed and 03/2022 rendered indicators. Operational guidance only. Nebraska Judicial Branch+7 | | S_NE-P23-S012 | Revenue Ruling 2023-1, Nebraska Department of Revenue. https://revenue.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/legal/rulings/rr2023-1.pdf; printed p.1/PDF 0. | One-page official ruling dated Sept. 19, 2023; $5,970 for 2023–2027. Freshly read and inspected. Nebraska Department of Revenue+1 | | S_NE-P23-S013 | Cattle National Bank & Trust Co. v. Watson, 293 Neb. 943 (2016). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00009973PUB; printed p.963/PDF 20 and p.968/PDF 25. | Final published opinion; body holdings freshly inspected. Nebraska.gov+1 | | S_NE-P23-S014 | Schaefer Shapiro LLP v. Ball, 305 Neb. 669 (2020). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00012229PUB; printed pp.675–676/PDF 6–7. | Final published opinion; Part 212 and underlying-exemption discussion freshly inspected. Nebraska.gov+1 | | S_NE-P23-S015 | Florence Lake Investments, LLC v. Berg, 312 Neb. 183 (2022). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00008782PUB; printed pp.197–198/PDF 14–15 and p.204/PDF 21. | Final published opinion; disclosure rule and majority ERISA outcome freshly inspected. Nebraska.gov+2 | | S_NE-P23-S016 | Neb. Rev. Stat. §30-2722, Nebraska Legislature. https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2722; complete material ownership provisions. | Current official text freshly read 2026-10-26. Net-contribution rule and spousal presumption. Nebraska Legislature | | S_NE-P23-S017 | Federal benefit statutes, exact URLs and headers listed in §4I. | Current headers individually verified as described; no cross-title generalization. U.S. Code+5 | | S_NE-P23-S018 | 38 U.S.C. §5301 GovInfo PDF. https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/38/5301; printed pp.1052–1053/PDF 0–1. | Complete material subsections (a)–(e) read; PDF does not itself display OLRC’s 119-124 header. GovInfo+2 | | S_NE-P23-S019 | Porter v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 370 U.S. 159 (1962). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/370/159/; reported pp.160–162 and n.3. | Public reproduction of actual Supreme Court majority opinion; freshly read. Money/readily-available/permanent-investment distinction. Justia Law+3 | | S_NE-P23-S020 | Failed Pruss vacatur reproductions: https://app.midpage.ai/document/pruss-v-butler-in-re-6988248; https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/pruss-v-butler-in-re-pruss-bap8-2000. | Failed/not read/not relied upon. Official Parsons opinion supplied the vacatur history. |

S_NE-P23 claim register

Coverage table

Self-check

Freshly read or visually inspected

• 31 C.F.R. §§212.4 and 212.5, including the two clocks, batch branch, and priority.
• The complete official Pruss PDF, including the majority, dissent heading, and deposited-payment pages.
• The official Parsons PDF and its vacatur footnote.
• Neb. Rev. Stat. §§25-1010, 25-1011, 25-1026 through 25-1031.01, and 25-1056.
• Huntington printed pp.305–306/PDF indices 11–12.
• Eight official Nebraska Judicial Branch garnishment PDFs.
• Revenue Ruling 2023-1’s single page.
• The specified body pages of Cattle National Bank, Schaefer Shapiro, and Florence Lake.
• Neb. Rev. Stat. §30-2722.
• Exact federal Code pages for §§407, 1383, 352, 8346, 8470, and 5301.
• The GovInfo §5301 PDF and Porter’s majority opinion and footnote.

Preserved limits

• No definitive Nebraska deposited-wage carryover rule was found.
• No universal worker-classification rule was inferred from the vacated Pruss record or Missouri-specific Parsons analysis.
• No trigger was established for §25-1030’s separate court-order-noncompliance branch.
• No current complete bank-designation roster was authenticated.
• No precise CC 3:8N replacement date was inferred.
• No blanket purchased-property rule was attributed to §5301 or Porter.
• No full ERISA, VA-asset, retirement, bank-fee, wrongful-garnishment, appeal, damages, or sector analysis was performed.

Not performed

No actual account, debtor, creditor, bank, branch, benefit record, garnishment order, service return, docket, form submission, payment ledger, retirement plan, or property record was accessed. No filing, contact, record request, account action, transfer, purchase, browser control, local write, or publication occurred.

All original PASS-20 factual, bank-roster, source-history, worker-classification, retirement, insurance, Medicaid, compensation, state-fee, damages, appeal, sector, local, tribal, country, contract, and record gaps remain open. No component, Nebraska, parent, A066, operational, or publication acceptance is implied.

END S_NE PASS-23.