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FTC’s active refund page lists Grubhub customer payments
The Federal Trade Commission’s active refund directory currently lists Grubhub Refunds. The entry is dated August 2026 and identifies Analytics Consulting as the administrator, with...
FTC’s active refund page lists Amazon Flex driver payments
The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund directory lists Refunds for Amazon Flex Drivers as an active program. The directory identifies the entry as August 2026...
The FTC lists AT&T data-throttling refunds as an active program
The Federal Trade Commission currently lists AT&T Data Throttling Refunds among its active refund programs. The listing includes JND Legal Administration as the contact, while...
A Richmond Hill clinic paid $113,199 in back wages
A Richmond Hill urgent-care facility paid $113,199 in back wages after a federal investigation, the Department of Labor reported. The Wage and Hour Division said...
Baton Rouge workers recovered $101,125 in unpaid wages
The Department of Labor recovered $101,125 in back wages for 36 workers at three Baton Rouge-area Japanese restaurants, according to a recent Wage and Hour...
South Carolina workers recovered $618,666 in back wages and tips
A South Carolina restaurant group paid $618,666 in back wages to 779 employees after a federal investigation, the Department of Labor said. The agency also...
A $36 million fraud ring targeted more than 400 older Americans
A federal guilty plea has put a specific face on a long-running scheme that prosecutors say drained more than $36 million from more than 400...
MCNA breach victims can claim documented identity-theft losses through October 19
A proposed settlement involving Managed Care of North America, or MCNA Dental, allows eligible class members to seek as much as $2,500 for documented identity-theft...
DATS breach victims can claim up to $5,000 by September 24
Eligible people affected by a DATS data incident have two main payment paths under a proposed class-action settlement: reimbursement of as much as $5,000 for...
Bradford-Scott breach victims have until October 7 to claim cash benefits
A proposed settlement over a Bradford-Scott Data Corporation security incident offers cash benefits to eligible class members, but the window to ask for them is...
Arrowhead breach victims can claim up to $80 for lost time by October 8
People covered by a proposed Arrowhead Regional Computing Consortium data-security settlement can seek payment for time spent dealing with the incident at a rate of...
North Texas boarding-home operators are accused of stealing Social Security money after residents died
Federal prosecutors have accused four North Texas boarding-home operators of exploiting elderly and disabled residents in two related schemes. One indictment focuses on a home...
A Vietnam veteran fraud victim is owed $99,496 in court-ordered restitution
A federal restitution order now places a precise value on the loss suffered by a Vietnam veteran in an impersonation fraud: $99,496. The judgment followed...
Treasury found $17.5 billion in suspected health-care fraud across 5,702 bank reports
The Treasury Department says banks and other financial institutions filed 5,702 reports involving approximately $17.5 billion in suspicious activity potentially tied to health-care fraud. The...
University of Hawaii breach claims can reach $5,000 before the November 2 cutoff
University of Hawaii data-breach settlement claims can reach $5,000, but only for notified class members who document extraordinary losses reasonably traced to the August 2025...
Americold breach victims can claim an estimated $100 or $200 by October 22
People notified that their information was involved in one or both Americold data incidents can submit a claim for an estimated cash payment before October...
A financial adviser stole nearly $10 million from one elderly client
One elderly investor gave a financial adviser complete access to a brokerage account, and the relationship ended with nearly $10 million diverted into accounts the...
An eye-care network’s data breach is paying up to $3,000 to patients who document a loss
A $1.75 million settlement stemming from a November 2023 data breach at American Vision Partners is now taking claims from patients whose Social Security numbers...
The FTC is mailing settlement checks that stop being valid 90 days after they are issued
The Federal Trade Commission is currently mailing checks and sending electronic payments from at least five active refund programs, and every one of them comes...
A whistleblower who flagged Aetna’s Medicare billing will collect about $2 million
Aetna has agreed to pay $117.7 million to resolve federal allegations that it inflated the diagnosis codes it submitted for Medicare Advantage enrollees in order...