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Implementing and Evaluating the Chapter 7 Filing Fee Waiver Program: Report to the Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System of the Judicial Conference of the United States

Elizabeth C. Wiggins
January 1, 1998

A description of the study the Center undertook at the committee's request to examine the congressionally mandated pilot fee-waiver program in six districts. Under the program, which ran from Oct.1, 1994, through Sept.30, 1997, the $175 filing fee was waived for Chapter 7 debtors unable to pay.