MEMORANDUM & ORDER Plaintiffs Alysia Jones and Pierre Kamtchi filed this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. ECF No. 1. Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain then transferred the action to this court. ECF No. 4. Proceeding pro se, plaintiffs have moved for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. ECF Nos. 2, 8. Those motions are denied without prejudice to renew, for the reasons discussed below. The IFP statute is designed to ensure that indigent persons have equal access to the judicial system. Davis v. NYC Dept. of Educ., No. 10-CV-3812, 2010 WL 3419671, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 27, 2010).1 A plaintiff seeking to proceed IFP must submit an affidavit stating “that the person is unable to pay” filing fees “or give security therefor.” 28 U.S.C. §1915(a)(1). He or she must also include “a statement of all assets” the person possesses. Id. Section 1915 authorizes a court to dismiss a case brought by a plaintiff requesting to proceed IFP if the “allegation of poverty is untrue,” 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)(2)(A), and courts in this district regularly invoke that provision. See, e.g., Miller v. Smith, No. 21-CV-2949, 2021 WL 2894973, at *2 (E.D.N.Y. June 2, 2021); Humphrey v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 21-CV-1901, 2021 WL 1837791, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. May 7, 2021). “When an applicant fails to explain how he supports himself, courts generally regard his application as incomplete and insufficient to establish an entitlement to in forma pauperis status.” Dan M. v. Kijakazi, No. 22-CV-664, 2022 WL 2069112, at *2 (D. Conn. May 19, 2022). Here, plaintiffs’ financial declarations — which are essentially duplicates of each other — indicate that they have no assets or income, but offer no alternative explanation of how the plaintiffs support themselves (or, as the case may be, are supported by others). See ECF Nos. 2, 8. Plaintiffs left blank the section of the form directing them to write their gross monthly pay, and checked boxes indicating that they do not receive income from any other sources, have no money in cash or in a checking or savings account, have no assets whatsoever, and have no financial dependents. ECF Nos. 2, 8
