A second round of Facebook Settlement payments is set to begin June 9, with more than 15 million people expected to receive money over the next four weeks. The payments go only to claimants who already received a first distribution and cashed it.
The California court approved the second distribution in May after the $725 million settlement was finalized in 2023. The case arose from lawsuits alleging that Facebook made user data accessible to third parties without permission, claims Meta denied even as it agreed to settle the dispute rather than go to trial.
The administrator estimates the bonus checks will range from $4.67 to $7.32 each, with the final amount tied to allocation points based on how long a person used Facebook during the settlement period. Someone who used the platform for 24 months between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022, would have 24 allocation points.
That second payment comes after the first round of checks, which began in September 2025 and averaged about $30. About $169 million has already gone toward legal and administrative fees, leaving roughly $95 million for the bonus distribution after costs.
Only people who filed a claim by Aug. 25, 2023, were eligible for any payout at all, and the second round is even narrower: it is limited to claimants who got the first payment and cashed it. The settlement administrator said eligible users will be notified by email three to four days before their payment is issued, and the money will be sent out through the official settlement process at FacebookUserPrivacySettlement.com.
The structure of the payout leaves one practical question still hanging for recipients: exactly how the allocation-point formula translates into each check. The range is fixed, but the individual amount will depend on the months each claimant spent on Facebook during the class period — and for millions of people, that calculation will be the only number that matters when the email arrives.
