By Daniel Wiessner 

ALBANY, N.Y., Oct 16 (Reuters) - Roughly six months after New York's 1,300 state trial-level judges received their first pay raise in 13 years, state court administrators have announced that judges will not receive additional $10,000 stipends to cover expenses during the current fiscal year.

Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti has been traveling the state over the last week to inform judicial associations that the stipends, which were instituted in 2008, would not be continued this year, according to David Bookstaver, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration.

The stipends were used to pay for a range of items, from judicial robes and newspaper subscriptions to computers, iPads and judicial license plates, according to several judges.

The discontinuation of the stipends comes about a year after a panel created by the state legislature recommended that judges, who were making nearly $137,000 at the time, be given a 27 percent raise over three years. The first phase of the pay hike took effect in April.

In an interview last month, before a final decision was made about whether to continue the stipends, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said the expense may no longer be tenable "with the economy the way it is, and with government the way it is."

"The stipend addressed an extraordinary situation, and that situation is over," Lippman said at the time.

As a result of the salary hike, judges were not expecting the stipends this year, said Judge Barry Kamins, the chief administrative judge of criminal courts in New York City.

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