Facebook Settlement Second Payments Start June 9 for Claimants

The facebook settlement is moving into a second payout on June 9, 2026, after the court approved a new distribution on May 6, 2026. Eligible claimants who already filed by the Aug. 25, 2023 deadline should not need to do anything to receive the supplemental payment.

June 9 payout window

The second distribution is expected to last about four weeks, and recipients should get an email a few days in advance. That puts the practical question in plain terms: if you filed a claim and got the first check, the money should arrive without another form or extra step.

The expected payment is much smaller than the first round. The new checks are expected to be roughly between $5 and $7, after the first checks issued last year averaged about $30.

Why this settlement returned

The case began with a lawsuit that claimed users' private content was shared with thousands of third parties between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022, and the dispute was settled in 2023 after appeals were resolved in May 2025. Facebook's parent company, Meta, denied any wrongdoing.

About 19 million people received payments from the estimated 250 million Facebook users eligible for the first cash settlement, and about $169 million was paid in legal and administrative fees. The settlement website says all Facebook users, except for affiliated companies or Facebook employees, were eligible for the cash settlement payments.

FacebookUserPrivacySettlement.com notice

The official settlement website is FacebookUserPrivacySettlement.com, and the court warning matters because other websites are not authorized by the court. For claimants, the only near-term action is watching for the advance email; for everyone else, the second round is simply a reminder that a claim filed by Aug. 25, 2023 is the difference between getting paid again and getting nothing now.