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After falling year-over-year for five consecutive Decembers, the number of bankruptcy filings bumped up from the previous year, according to the latest AACER bankruptcy data reported by Epiq Systems.

How far did nationwide bankruptcy filings fall month-over-month and from the previous year, according to the latest AACER bankruptcy data reported by Epiq Systems?

Nationwide bankruptcy filings were about 5 percent lower in June 2016 compared with a year earlier, continuing an ongoing trend of decline,

What were some of the trends at both the national and state levels happening with bankruptcy filings in April?

For the second consecutive month, bankruptcy filings nationwide increased substantially.

Steep year-over-year declines have become the norm for bankruptcy filings as more time passes since the financial crisis. That was not the case in February 2016, however.

How did bankruptcy filings in January 2016 stack up with Januarys of years past?

Bankruptcy filings experienced a rare year-over-year climb in November, but it was not sustained in December, according to AACER.

Prior to November, the monthly total of filings had declined over-the-year in every month of 2015 and every November since 2011.

October’s total of 70,211 new bankruptcies in 21 filing days was slightly ahead of September’s total of 67,138 in the same number of filing days. The average number of bankruptcy filings in October totaled 3,343 compared to 3,197 in September.