Collection & Civil Prosecution Specialist 1 - Grade 14

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Salary Information for Collection & Civil Prosecution Specialist 1
Title Grade Hiring Rate/yr Job Rate/yr
Collection & Civil Prosecution Specialist 1 14 $54,860 $66,634
Collection & Civil Prosecution Specialist 2 17 $64,748 $78,307

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Job Duties

As a Collection & Civil Prosecution Specialist 1, you would, under the direction of an attorney and the supervision of a Collection and Civil Prosecution Specialist 2, advise individuals of their obligations with respect to their debt(s) owed to New York State either by phone or through correspondence. You would provide this information based on your knowledge of the applicable laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to each case. Examples of the types of cases you would handle include, but are not limited to, student loans and/or tuition, hospital bills, rentals, torts, contracts, and penalties. You would also inform individuals and others of the consequences, such as a judgement being entered, judgment enforcement and additional charges being applied to their account, which might result from nonpayment of the obligation. In addition, you may attempt to collect the full amount of money owed by arranging a payment schedule and then tracking that the payments are received. You would perform paralegal duties, such as monitoring a substantial number of files in which legal process has been served, drafting legal papers for review by attorneys, performing occasional legal research, closing files, and monitoring enforcement of judgments. You would be required to exercise a considerable amount of independent judgment. You would be responsible for the financial and legal accuracy of accounts from inception through the closing review. You would be required to search, locate, and identify assets in order to perform judgment enforcement, and you would be responsible for a substantial amount of conflict resolution between defendants and clients. In certain locations, you would also be required to analyze patient accounts for both collections and write-off treatments and be familiar with Medicare/Medicaid requirements, hospital billing practices, and the Charity Care Law. You would be required to use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Lexis, and SilverCar (In-house Oracle Debt collection database).

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Summary of Minimum Qualifications

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26-318

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