Meta Sends Second Facebook Privacy Settlement Bonus Payment on June 9, 2026
The facebook privacy settlement bonus payment started going out on June 9, 2026, as a second round in the $725 million Facebook privacy class action settlement. The money is moving in batches over about four weeks, and it is going only to people who received and successfully redeemed the first payout.
Mark Zuckerberg and the $725 million deal
Meta, the parent company led by Mark Zuckerberg, agreed to pay $725 million to resolve the lawsuit without admitting liability or wrongdoing. The case grew out of allegations that Facebook improperly shared personal data with third parties after the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The second round is drawing from money that was left undistributed after the first payments went out in September 2025. That first round averaged $29.43, but individual payouts ranged from about $4 to $38 after attorneys’ fees and administrative costs were deducted.
15.7 million eligible claimants
About 15.7 million class members qualify for the new distribution. People who never cashed or activated their initial payout do not qualify, so this is not a fresh payment for everyone who filed a claim in the case.
The settlement administrator is sending eligible recipients email notices three to four days before their payment is scheduled to arrive. Payments are going out through the same method each person originally selected, including check, direct deposit, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, or prepaid debit card.
Payment amounts are smaller
The second-round checks are smaller than the first. The minimum bonus payment is $4.67, and the maximum is $7.32.
That narrower range reflects how the remaining settlement money is being divided across the roughly 15.7 million people who successfully redeemed the first payout. More than 200,000 paper checks went uncashed, and 3 million digital payments were left to expire, leaving about $100 million in undistributed funds for this second distribution.
For anyone who already used the first payment, the practical step is simple: watch the email tied to the claim and check the delivery method originally chosen. The payment is arriving through the same channel, not a new sign-up.
