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Payment Method

Only the Cedar Rapids Clerk's office accepts payments.  The Clerk’s office cannot make change for the payment of filing or miscellaneous fees. The preferred forms of payment are money order, cashier’s check and credit card (Pro Se filers may not pay fees by credit card).

The following payment methods apply, based on the type of filer:

 

 

Debit card or ACH

(2)

Cash

(exact amount only)

Credit

Card

Cashier’s check

or Money Order

 

In Person

Online

In person

Online (1)

In person

Mail

 

Debtors without an attorney

 

via Pay.Gov at public terminal

 

via Pay.Gov

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

Mall all payment to Cedar Rapids office

Debtors with an attorney; only copy charges, search and certification fees, and installment fees

 

via Pay.Gov at public terminal

 

via Pay.Gov

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

Mall all payment to Cedar Rapids office

ECF-registered payers

 

Pay through ECF/PACER

 

Pay through ECF/PACER

See note (3)

 

 

 

All others

 

via Pay.Gov at public terminal

 

via Pay.Gov

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

 

Cedar Rapids office only

 

Mall all payment to Cedar Rapids office
 

Cashiers are only present in the Cedar Rapids office; however, public computers are available in the Sioux City office which may be used by Debtors and others not registered in ECF to make Debit card or ACH payments.

 

If paying by cashier’s check or money order, make payable to “Clerk, U.S. Bankruptcy Court” and please include your case number.

 

Send all mailed payments to:           U.S. Bankruptcy Court

                                                            Northern District of Iowa

                                                            111 Seventh Avenue SE, #15

                                                            Cedar Rapids, IA  52401

 

Payments mailed to the Sioux City office will be returned to sender.

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(1) If an electronically filed document requires a fee, the fee must be paid through CM/ECF with a credit card, debit card, or by ACH transactions.

(2) The Court has an Electronic Payment Method available through Pay.Gov (separate from ECF payment method) for non-ECF filers (debtors or other parties). Please visit the Online Payment page for details about how to pay online.

(3) ECF-registered payers may pay by Cashier’s check only when directed to do so by the Clerk’s office.