Facebook users who qualified for the company’s $725 million privacy settlement are set to see a second bonus payment begin on June 9, 2026, after a federal court approved the extra distribution on May 6. The supplemental checks are expected to be modest, roughly $5 to $7 each, but they are moving now for people who already filed claims and received the first round.
The timing matters because notices are expected to go out a few days before money starts landing, giving recipients something concrete to watch for this week. Anyone who submitted a claim form by Aug. 25, 2023 and got the first payment does not need to do anything to receive the additional amount, which will be sent automatically if they remain in the distribution.
The settlement stems from a privacy lawsuit that said users’ private content was shared with thousands of third parties between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022. The case was settled in 2023, appeals were resolved in May 2025, and the first round of payments began in September 2025. At that point, the average check was about $30, though only some of the estimated 250 million eligible Facebook users were paid in the first round, with about 19 million people receiving checks.
That gap is part of why the second distribution is drawing attention. The court-approved supplemental round will run for about four weeks, but officials have not said how many eligible claimants will get another payment. The official settlement website is FacebookUserPrivacySettlement.com, and administrators say they will not ask people to confirm their name, address, payment method or identity with a driver’s license or other personal documents.
Meta denied wrongdoing in the case, which has been described as the richest settlement in history for a privacy-related class-action lawsuit and the largest legal payout Facebook has ever faced. The money already committed to the case is substantial: about $169 million went to legal and administrative fees. That is also why settlement-related scams remain a concern, with emails, texts and social media pitches likely to surge around the payout date.
For recipients, the key point is simple: if a valid claim was filed and the first payment arrived, the second bonus payment is supposed to follow without any new action. The unanswered question is smaller but still important — how many people will actually be included in the June 9 run, and whether the supplemental round is the last check tied to the case.
