It’s not too late to claim your share of Verizon’s $100 million settlement fund
The amount that each eligible current or former Verizon customer receives will be based on a formula that starts with a base amount of $15 with an additional $1 tacked on for each month that the person was paying the administrative charge. Again, that payment is capped at $100. To get the maximum amount of $100, you must have been a Verizon customer for at least seven years and one month.
The web site for the lawsuit, known as Esposito et al. v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, reiterates that to qualify for a slice of the settlement pie, you must be a “current or former individual consumer account holder in the United States… who received postpaid wireless or data services from Verizon and who were charged and paid an Administrative Charge and/or an Administrative and Telco Recovery Charge between January 1, 2016, and November 8, 2023.”
The lawsuit said that Verizon “falsely advertis[ed] its wireless services at lower monthly rates than it actually charges customers by not disclosing, and not including in the advertised price” the administrative charge that it “imposes each month on every line purchased by its post-paid wireless service customers.” In agreeing to the settlement, Verizon did not admit that it had committed any wrongdoing.