Bankruptcy Filings Are Up for March and April Bankruptcy filings in 2021 continue to be down compared to the same period in 2020. However, the filing trends over the last two months of March and April show that bankruptcy filings are on the rise. As the pandemic nears its end, it appears as if more and more individuals are returning to filing bankruptcy cases to clear up old debt and to get a new financial start. When the pandemic started, many attorneys assumed that it would result in a historic wave of bankruptcy filings. Instead, the opposite has happened so far. The