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Payment Dates

Current Payment Schedule

For the week starting 01/30/2023IDS will be issuing payments on01/31/2023and 02/02/2023paying attorney fee applications received through approximately01/03/2023.

We are having to return an extraordinary number of fee applications for (1) missing attorney or Judges signatures; (2) missing case information; (3) wrong rates, particularly fee applications using the new rates for dispositions prior to Jan 1. Please check your fee application for these errors before submission.

IRS Form #1099s were mailed on January 25th. If you did not receive one, contact Amy.M.Ferrell@nccourts.org

At present, IDS staff cannot research the status of individual payments unless more than 45 days have passed since the fee application was submitted to the judge. 

IDS processes fee applications in the order in which they are received, usually within two or three weeks of receipt by our Financial Services Office, depending on volume. We recognize there is often a several week delay between the disposition of a case and receipt of the fee application by IDS Financial Services. Unfortunately, staff cannot expedite payment on individual fee applications.

Who can I contact if 45 days have passed and I haven’t been paid?

Please contact the IDS Financial Services staffer assigned to your county. Please have the case name, case number, disposition date, the date submitted to the judge, and your tax identification number on hand when you call. If you have several cases to research, email is best.

General questions–IDS Fiscal Officer Aaron.M.Gallagher@nccourts.org (919-890-2188) or Accounting Supervisor Amy.M.Ferrell@nccourts.org (919-890-1660) or Financial Services Staff Attorney Chadwick.E.Boykin@nccourts.org (919-890-2128).

Alamance – Cumberland
Priscilla Sanders • Priscilla.D.Sanders@nccourts.org • 919-890-1647

Currituck–Lenoir
Tracey Hinson • Tracey.K.Hinson@nccourts.org • 919-890-1646

Lincoln-Richmond
Shante Partin • Shante.M.Partin@nccourts.org • 919-890-1648

Robeson-Yancey
LeaAnne Murphy• LeaAnne.Murphy@nccourts.org • 919-890-1649

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Indigent Defense Services
123 West Main Street, Suite 400
Durham, North Carolina 27701
Phone: (919) 354-7200
Fax: (919) 354-7201

Attorney Fee Application Inquiry Line:
(919) 890-2188

Setoff Debt Program Taxpayer Inquiry Line:
(919) 890-1655

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