West Virginia Code § 38-5B-12

Exemptions
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A judgment debtor to whom money is due or to become due which would otherwise be
subject to suggestion under this article may have the same exempted from levy in the
manner and to the extent provided by article eight of this chapter. In the case of salary or
wages the exemption may be claimed for sums currently accruing but must be asserted
anew as to any salary or wages which shall begin to accrue after the next paeyment date.
Such exemption shall not be binding upon the state, state agency or political subdivision of
which the judgment debtor is an officer or employee unless and until a rcertificate of
exemption or true copy thereof shall have been delivered to the proper officer upon whom to
make service of a suggestee execution under this article.
Money due to any lawful beneficiary thereof from any worketrs' compensation,
unemployment compensation, pension or retirement, public assistance or relief fund or
system, or under the state's emergency employment program as provided by section six,
Title II of Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1 (Budget Bill), enacted by the Legislature of West
Virginia, regular session, one thousand nine hundred sixty-one, or any laws amendatory of,
supplementary or successor to, such programs that may hereafter be enacted, shall not be
subject to suggestion under this article.
Public obligations, whether in the fogrm of bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, or
otherwise, and whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, shall not be subject to suggestion
under this article. e

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