Settlement Amount:
$203,350,000 (End-User Consumer fund)
Claim Deadline:
July 31, 2025 (closed)
Payment Status:
Delayed — no confirmed distribution date
Official Settlement Website:
If you filed a claim in the $203.35 million chicken price-fixing settlement, your payment has not arrived yet — and there is no confirmed distribution date. Here is the latest status, plus why a new OverchargedForChicken.com email is not a second check.
Latest Update — Payments Delayed
Consumer payments in the $203.35 million End-User Consumer settlement are delayed. An April 24, 2026 court-filed status report had proposed that the deficiency/audit period close May 8, 2026, claims be finalized May 22, 2026, and payments begin June 5, 2026. That June 5 target was not met.
As of mid-June 2026, the official settlement website says claims remain under audit and the parties are awaiting additional court rulings on an objection to class counsel’s attorneys’ fees. No revised payment date has been announced, and there is no official confirmation that any payments have started.
A.B. Data, the claims administrator, reviewed claims among more than 10 million submitted. The documentation threshold was raised from purchases exceeding $50 per month to $300 per month; class members who could not document purchases above $300 per month were presumed to have spent $300 per month for each claimed month.
Why You May Be Seeing Another Chicken Notice (Agri Stats)
Many readers received a new email or notice from OverchargedForChicken.com about the Agri Stats settlement. It is part of the same Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation and uses the same official website, but it is not a new cash payout. The Agri Stats settlement is injunctive relief — business-practice changes such as limits on certain broiler chicken reports and production-data sharing.
If you received the Agri Stats notice, you do not need to file a new claim, and it does not change any payment you may be owed from the earlier cash settlements. The Agri Stats objection/exclusion deadline is July 13, 2026, with a final approval hearing set for September 1, 2026.
What Is the Chicken Price-Fixing Settlement?
The $203.35 million settlement resolves allegations that some of the largest U.S. chicken producers colluded to fix prices and inflate the cost of raw chicken, causing consumers to overpay. The producers did not admit wrongdoing. Settling companies included Tyson Foods ($99M), Pilgrim’s ($75M), George’s ($1.9M), Peco ($1.9M), Fieldale Farms ($1.7M), and Mar-Jac ($1M), with later settlements from Claxton, Foster Farms, Harrison Poultry, House of Raeford, Koch Foods, Mountaire, O.K. Foods, Perdue, Sanderson, Simmons, and Wayne Farms adding roughly $22.5 million.
Who Qualified?
Class members purchased fresh or frozen raw chicken — whole birds, cut-up birds in a package, or white-meat parts including breasts and wings — for personal use in a qualifying state between January 1, 2009 and July 31, 2019 (Rhode Island purchases qualify only after July 15, 2013).
How Much Will Payments Be?
There is no fixed per-person amount. Each payout depends on the number of eligible claims, the claimant’s approved purchase amount, audit results, fees, and the final distribution formula. The court reduced attorney fees from 33% to 26.6%, returning roughly $9 million to the net amount available to class members.
If you filed a claim, watch the email address, payment account, and mailing address used on your claim form. Never pay anyone to “release,” “verify,” or “speed up” a settlement payment — legitimate settlement payments never require a fee.
Case Details
| Case Name | In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation (End-User Consumer) |
| Case Number | 1:16-cv-08637 |
| Court | U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois |
| Settlement Amount | $203,350,000 |
Check Official Settlement Site
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By Steve Levine. OpenClassActions.org is a consumer news and information site and is not a class action administrator, class counsel, or a law firm. This page summarizes a public class action settlement and is general information, not legal advice. Deadlines and payment timing may change — always verify details at the official settlement website before filing. Class action claim forms are submitted under penalty of perjury; submit only truthful information.