A federal court has approved a revised Amazon Prime settlement order that will speed up and broaden payments to consumers, raising the maximum refund from $51 to $200 and making future payments automatic. The move means more people harmed by Amazon’s Prime enrollment and cancellation practices will qualify for money under the Federal Trade Commission’s settlement.
The change matters now because the FTC said Amazon has already issued more than $845 million in redress payments, and this week’s court approval changes how the rest of the money will move. Under the revised order, consumers will not need to submit claims or extra paperwork to Amazon, a shift that should put payments into more hands with less delay.
Christopher Mufarrige said the revised order will ensure more consumers harmed by Amazon’s deceptive enrollment and cancellation practices benefit from the FTC’s historic settlement. He said the action also shows the agency’s commitment to making companies return money to consumers harmed by unlawful and deceptive business practices. His comments came as the agency announced that Amazon will accelerate and expand payments under the $2.5 billion deal reached last year.
That settlement resolved FTC allegations that Amazon enrolled millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent and knowingly made it difficult to cancel. Under the September 2025 agreement, Amazon was required to pay up to $1.5 billion in redress in addition to a $1 billion civil penalty. By September 2026, more than $845 million had already gone out to consumers, but the original structure still left some refunds capped at $51.
That cap is the friction point in the case: Amazon has agreed to faster and larger redress even though some payments were initially limited to a fraction of the harm alleged by the FTC. The revised order removes the claims process for future payments, but it also leaves one practical question unspoken in the court filing: how many additional consumers will now be swept into the automatic payment stream. The answer is that the order expands eligibility, yet the exact total is not specified in the announcement.
What is clear is that the settlement has entered a new phase. The money is still tied to the same conduct, but the way it will be delivered has changed, and that will make the difference for consumers who were waiting for their share.
