Updated: Oct. 6, 2025
Fiscal Year 2025 Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel attorney funds were depleted around July 3, 2025. Panel attorney payments have been deferred (except for one batch of payments on September 18) since that date. The deferred payments from fiscal year 2025, and new fiscal year 2026 panel attorney payments, continue to be deferred during the current lapse in appropriations. Panel attorney payments will resume when a continuing resolution is passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.
Please continue to file, process, and approve CJA vouchers as normal during the payment deferrals so that payments can be disbursed as soon as funding becomes available. The Judiciary continues to seek every opportunity to obtain additional funding to meet this need.
The Judiciary continues to seek every opportunity to obtain additional funding to meet this need.
Contacts
- Status of an individual voucher: Your local CJA administrator
- CJA Administrator technical eVoucher questions: National Support Desk
- National CJA policy questions: DSO_LPD@ao.uscourts.gov