Failure to Remit Interest Earned on Court Fee Collections

$10,000-$100,000+ annually (depends on collection agency volume) • $10,000-$80,000 annually per collection officer's jurisdiction (smaller courts or part-time collections) • $15,000-$150,000 annually per court (depending on fee volume and interest rate; assumes $500K-$5M in collected fees at 3-5% annual interest)

Administrator requests manual bank statements from treasurer; compares against prior year interest; no real-time dashboard; relies on clerk verbal confirmation of remittance completion • Attorney fee deposits tracked in separate accounts with interest calculations done off-the-books; manual emails to finance; informal notes on who owes what • Clerks and finance staff manually pull bank statements, calculate interest attributable to fee balances, and decide ad hoc whether and when to sweep it using paper notes, desktop calculators, and basic spreadsheets, or they simply leave the interest in the local operating account until an audit flags the issue.