A Great Method for the Recovery of Debts

What We Do...

We assist North Carolina local governments with the recovery of any delinquent debts by offsetting debtors' North Carolina state tax refunds and Education lottery winnings. As long as the debt has been delinquent 60 days the process can begin. There is NO COST to participate with the N.C. Debt Setoff Clearinghouse. Since the debtor pays all fees, there is only the effort and cost of mailing the required notification letters.

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Who is Eligible to Participate?

Counties
Municipalities
Joint Regional Agencies (created by inter-local agreement under Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes between two or more counties, municipalities or both)
Metropolitan Sewerage Districts (created under Article 5 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes)
Public Health Authorities (created under Part 1B of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes)
Sanitary Districts (created under Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 1302A of the General Statutes)
Water and Sewer Authorities (created under Article 1 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes)

Are you eligible and ready to begin - 2010 Participation Form

Debt Setoff Success

Twenty-two local governments have surpassed the ONE Million dollars since inception. (As of December 15, 2009) Final for 2009

Counties (15)

1) Gaston - $6.21M	2) Cleveland - $3.72M	3) Forsyth - $2.28M	4) Wake - $2.25M
5) Durham - $2.20M	6) Wayne - $2.17M	7) Guilford - $1.77M	8) Robeson - $1.70M
9) Rowan - $1.70M	10) Vance - $1.58M	11) Rockingham - $1.45M	12) Lincoln - $1.24M
13) Randolph - $1.14M	14) Pitt - $1.10M	15) Iredell - $1.01M

Municipalities (6)

1) Charlotte - $1.55M	2) Winston-Salem - $1.43M	3) Raleigh - $1.21M
4) High Point - $1.21M	5) Durham - $1.06M	6) Asheville - $1.00M

Other (1)

1) Mecklenburg EMS - $3.95M

Local Government Units Receiving Funds in 2009 (319)

1) Counties - 89	2) Municipalities - 210	3) Joint Regional Authorities - 3
4) Public Health Authorities - 5	5) Sanitary Districts - 7	6) Water & Sewer Authorities - 5

Amount Collected since 2002: $77,403,323.04

Amount Collected in 2009: $21,587,090.45 (FINAL)

Are you a debtor that has been setoff?

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Operation Clean-up

Phase 1 ($0.00 debts) and Phase 2 (Expired debts) have been completed. 94 local governments participated in removing their $0.00 debts and/or expired debts. Phase 3 (SSN clean-up) is still in progress.

If you are an ASCII or Excel participant and did not participate in the clean-up we still removed your $0.00 and expired debts in early January. However, if you send your entire file of debtors each time you will notice in the Import Status report debts that you are still sending that are expired. We no longer load debts that are $0.00 (unless the debt is currently in our system with a debt amount not $0.00).

2009 Training Workshops

Six FREE training workshops for 2009 have been completed. Next workshop will be September 2010.

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Building It Better

We are currently working on our new client software to replace the current version, 2007.03. We received many positive comments from the attendees at this year's training workshops. We hope to have it ready in April 2010 after the tax year processing slow down. We will provide updates here over the next several months.

Tax Season didn't end on April 15

Sure, it slowed down, but we don't stop recovering debts for our participating local governments when the major tax season ends in April. We collect all year long from tax refunds and lottery winnings. Don't wait until the next tax year, get your debts in as soon as possible. When they are 60 days delinquent, send them a notification letter and 30 days later send to us. Remember, we prioritize debts in date received order.

Security Reminder

Never send data with social security numbers, such as an Excel file, to us via unsecured email, we have a website devoted for the secure transfer of data. In addition, don't send an email with a person's social security number enclosed. Call us instead and we can provide the information you need.

Special Offer

Data Entry Support: Don't have the staff to enter debts into the required software or electronic format? We will enter up to 50 debtors and generate electronic notification letters all at no cost. You just print the letters, stuff and mail. Contact us for more information. Not sure how much longer we'll offer this FREE service