{"id":66,"date":"2008-05-12T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-05-12T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T21:59:00","slug":"debtor-audits-in-bankruptcy-cases-resume-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/debtor-audits-in-bankruptcy-cases-resume-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Debtor Audits in Bankruptcy Cases Resume Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My email today brought me a notice that the U.S. Trustee&#8217;s office is resuming <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">debtor<\/span> audits as of today.  They stopped in January because Congress didn&#8217;t fund it.<\/p>\n<p>An audit in this context involves the U.S. Trustee&#8217;s office hiring an outside accounting firm to go over the debtor&#8217;s records.  Previously the policy was that one in 250 cases would randomly be audited.  Now the policy is one in a thousand will be audited.  That&#8217;s a 400% improvement, but I&#8217;m still sad to see this stuff starting again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My email today brought me a notice that the U.S. Trustee&#8217;s office is resuming debtor audits as of today. They stopped in January because Congress didn&#8217;t fund it. An audit in this context involves the U.S. Trustee&#8217;s office hiring an outside accounting firm to go over the debtor&#8217;s records. Previously the policy was that one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/debtor-audits-in-bankruptcy-cases-resume-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Debtor Audits in Bankruptcy Cases Resume Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71,69,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bankruptcy","category-bapcpa","category-chapter-13","category-chapter-7"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Debtor Audits in Bankruptcy Cases Resume Today - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/debtor-audits-in-bankruptcy-cases-resume-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Debtor Audits in Bankruptcy Cases Resume Today - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My email today brought me a notice that the U.S. Trustee&#8217;s office is resuming debtor audits as of today. 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