11-713. DEPOSITS INTO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NOT SUBJECT TO GARNISHMENT. (1) Money, funds, benefits and personal property that are exempt from execution as provided in section 11-604(1), Idaho Code, including payable or paid for disability and illness, alimony, support and child support, as a result of bodily injury, wrongful death and the death of an insured shall remain exempt in an account at a financial institution.
(2) Wages that are exempt from execution as provided in sections 11-207 and 11-712, Idaho Code, shall remain exempt when deposited into an account at a financial institution. This subsection shall not apply to any accumulation of wages greater than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).
(3) All funds that are exempt under federal and state law; section 11-603, Idaho Code, including social security, SSI and veteran benefits, federal and state public assistance, medical savings accounts, child support payments deposited by the Idaho department of health and welfare, and unemployment benefits; section 11-604A, Idaho Code, retirement and pension benefits including public employee retirement system of Idaho (PERSI) and United States government benefits; and section 72-802, Idaho Code, worker’s compensation benefits shall remain exempt without limitation when deposited into an account at a financial institution.
(4) The application of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section shall not be affected by the commingling of exempt and nonexempt funds in an account. For the purposes of identifying exempt funds in an account, first in, first out accounting principles shall be used.
(5) The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent a debtor from claiming any exemption that otherwise may be available under law for any amounts garnished from an account at a financial institution.
History:
[11-713, added 2017, ch. 303, sec. 9, p. 808.]
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