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CJA Expense Information


  • Receipts are necessary for any single expense over $50.00, except Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR) where receipts are not necessary until the expense exceeds $500

  • Receipts are necessary for any travel expense incurred, including parking, ferry fares, and tolls.


    Copies:

    In-house - Actual cost, up to .15 cents per page
    NOTE: The actual cost of a photocopy would include such components as the prorated cost per copy of supplies and of a maintenance contract on a machine.

    Outside source - actual charge, receipt necessary if over $50

    Faxes:

    Actual Cost, up to $1.00 per page is allowed

    Paralegals, legal assistants (including law students) and other non-secretarial professional support personnel employed by appointed counsel: Effective 9/1/05 these services should be billed on a CJA 21 voucher and not as “other expenses” on the attorney’s CJA 20.