New Jersey Surcharge

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this article if you can. (February 2010) The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (November 2011) New Jersey Surcharge is the program that New Jersey uses of charging an additional fee through the DMV that is generally two to three times the amount of a traffic violation in addition to the original ticket in order to bring in extra money for the state budget. The program was originally created to help subsidize state bonds for drivers who could not afford insurance but the revenue now mostly goes to the state's discretionary general fund.[1] New Jersey is the only state in the country with this type of surcharge program. In the last few years[when?], the state has charged drivers $583 million dollars in surcharge fees, but... (see more)