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Official Forms 22C–1 and 22C–2

Instructions for the Chapter 13 Statement of Your Current Monthly Income,

Calculation of Commitment Period and Chapter 13 Calculation of Your Disposable

Income

United States Bankruptcy Court

12/01/14

should file one statement together.

If you are filing under chapter 7, 11, or 12,

do not fill out this form.

Understand the terms used in these form

These forms use you and Debtor 1 to refer to a debtor

How to Fill Out these Forms

filing alone. A married couple may file a bankruptcy case

together—called a joint case—and in joint cases, these

Official Forms 22C─1 and 22C─2 determine the

forms use you to ask for information from both debtors.

commitment period for your payments to creditors, how

When information is needed about the spouses separately,

the amount you may be required to pay to creditors is

the forms use Debtor 1 and Debtor 2 to distinguish

established, and, in some situations, how much you must

between them. In joint cases, one of the spouses must

pay.

report information as Debtor 1 and the other as Debtor 2.

The same person must be Debtor 1 in all of the forms.

You must file 22C ─1, the Chapter 13 Statement of Your

Current Monthly Income and Calculation of Commitment

Period (Official Form 22C ─1) if you are an individual

Information for completing the forms

and you are filing under chapter 13. This form will report

To fill out several lines of the forms, you must look up

your current monthly income and determine whether your

information provided on websites or from other sources.

income is at or below the median income for households

For information to complete line 16c of Form 22C-1 and

of the same size in your state. If your income is equal to or

lines 6-15, 30, and 36 of Form 22C-2, go to:

less than the median, you will not have to fill out the

second form. Form 22C -1 also will determine your

applicable commitment period—the time period for

If your case is filed in Alabama or North Carolina, the

making payments to your creditors, unless the court orders

administrative expense multiplier mentioned at line 36 can

otherwise.

be found at:

If your income is above the median, you must file the

Resources/AdministrativeExpensesMultiplier.aspx.

second form, 22C─2, Chapter13 Calculation of Your

Disposable Income. The calculations on this form—

If you do not have a computer with internet access, you

sometimes called the Means Test—reduce your income by

may be able to use a public computer at the bankruptcy

living expenses and payment of certain debts, resulting in an

clerk’s office or at a public library.

amount available to pay unsecured debts. Your chapter 13

Things to remember when filling out this form

plan may be required to provide for payment of this amount

toward unsecured debts.

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Be as complete and accurate as possible.

Read each question carefully. You may not be required to

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If more space is needed, attach a separate sheet to this

answer every question on this form. The instructions will

form. Include the line number to which the additional

alert you if you may skip questions.

information applies. On the top of any additional

pages, write your name and case number (if known).

Some of the questions require you to go to other sources

for information. In those cases, the form has instructions

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If two married people are filing together, both are

for where to find the information you need.

equally responsible for supplying correct information.

Generally, if you and your spouse are filing together, you

Do not include these instructions when you submit your bankruptcy forms to the court. Keep them for your records.

Official Form B 22c1 - Chapter 13 Statement Of Your Current Monthly Income And Calculation Of Commitment Period

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