Here’s why FirstEnergy class action members got ‘digital payments’ instead of settlement checks

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Here’s why FirstEnergy class action members got ‘digital payments’ instead of settlement checks
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Some say they're struggling to functionally receive the roughly $8 settlement.

Jake Zuckerman, [email protected]

, several readers have reached out to say their money is stuck in purgatory. Most received around $8. Because many online vendors won’t allow users to split a bill over multiple forms of payment, the plaintiffs can’t buy much online that costs less than your average burrito. “The challenge with smaller distributions is that small checks are often ignored and it costs something like $1.50 to get a check cut and mailed,” he wrote in an email. “With 2 million class members, that is a lot of money that could be going to the class instead. The experience of my co-counsel and the class administrator is that we ultimately will get more money to more class members using digital payments than we would checks.

“While the plaintiffs’ lawyer is not able to access customer bills to apply credits, it is otherwise their discretion how to implement the settlement funds,” he said.

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