HireVue Illinois BIPA Settlement: Claims Are Due October 13, 2026 — but $150 Is the Most a Claimant Can Get, and Whatever Isn’t Claimed Goes Back to HireVue

The claim deadline in the HireVue Illinois BIPA settlement is October 13, 2026. Online claims go through the official site, VideoInterviewBIPASettlement.com, run by the administrator Simpluris; paper claims must be “postmarked by October 13, 2026” and mailed to HireVue BIPA Settlement, c/o Simpluris, P.O. Box 25226, Santa Ana, CA 92799. The FAQ is blunt that a claim is “the only way to receive a payment from this Settlement and is the only thing you need to do to receive a payment.” The opt-out and objection deadline was September 28, 2026 and has passed, so anyone in the class who does not file still gives up their claims: the FAQ says you “will release your claims whether or not you submit a Claim Form and receive payment.”

Two documents change how that deadline should be read, and both are on the official site. The Settlement Agreement makes $150 the most any class member can receive and sends unused money back to HireVue. And the FAQ now carries HireVue’s statement that the interview models at issue “were phased out beginning in 2020, were retired entirely by February 2023.” We got both of those points wrong or incomplete in our August 12 article, which said a smaller number of claims could push the payment up and that an interview from spring 2026 could still count. This piece corrects that.

The case is Deyerler, et al. v. HireVue, Inc., No. 2026LA00000141, before Judge Daniel L. Jasica in the Circuit Court of Lake County, Illinois. It alleges that HireVue collected voice and facial biometrics from Illinois candidates through automated interview technology without the written disclosure and consent the Biometric Information Privacy Act requires. HireVue “denies that it collected or possessed biometrics or any other information subject to BIPA, and denies that it violated BIPA.”

The class covers people who, while in Illinois, completed a HireVue interview “that involved a model that may have collected your ‘voice and facial biometrics’” between January 27, 2017 and June 25, 2026. The FAQ now explains the end date: “June 25, 2026, is the date the Court granted preliminary approval of the proposed settlement” and “is not a statement about when any particular technology was or was not in use.” Its first answer is more direct still: “Completing a video interview does not, by itself, make you a Settlement Class Member.” Only certain models that allegedly analyzed facial or vocal characteristics count, and by HireVue’s account those were retired by February 2023. A recent HireVue interview is therefore unlikely to qualify on its own.

The agreement puts the class at 91,305 people, but HireVue’s list holds only about 22,234 email addresses — roughly 24 percent of the class, by our arithmetic. Those people got an email with a Claim ID and PIN; the FAQ says that email means “records indicate your interview likely involved the relevant interview models,” and filing takes the ID, PIN, your legal name and a payment address. Everyone else files the long form: the employer, the job title, the year, and “a native copy of the interview invitation or completion confirmation email.” Simpluris checks each claim against HireVue’s customer records, may not reject one only for an imprecise company name or job title, and gives 30 days to fix a deficiency. Do not ask the employer: the FAQ says employers “cannot determine eligibility.”

The notice and the FAQ say each payment “is estimated to be $150.00, but the exact amount is unknown.” The Settlement Agreement is more precise. Each approved claimant “will receive up to $150,” the payment is cut pro rata only “if the aggregate value of all Approved Claims exceeds the Net Settlement Fund,” and “In no event shall any Settlement Class Member receive more than $150.00.” The amount can go down; it cannot go up.

What happens to the rest of the $3,750,000 is also in the agreement. Money not spent on payments, fees, service awards and administration that is still in the fund 60 days after the settlement takes effect “shall remain the property of Defendant and shall be transferred to Defendant,” and so do uncashed checks. That is a reversionary settlement. The $3,750,000 is the most HireVue can pay, not a sum guaranteed to leave its hands.

Our arithmetic, not the administrator’s: class counsel may ask for up to one-third of the fund, about $1,250,000, and the three class representatives for $6,000 each, $18,000 in total. That leaves about $2,482,000 before expenses and administration costs, enough for about 16,500 full $150 payments — roughly 18 percent of the class. If fewer people file, each still gets $150 and the remainder goes back to HireVue; if more file, every payment shrinks. Paying all 91,305 class members $150 would take $13,695,750, well over the fund. The fee request was due to be filed on September 7, 2026; we could not open it on the documents page, and the court has not ruled on it as of October 12, 2026. No claims count has been published.

Nothing is paid before final approval. The hearing is set for October 28, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. CT in Courtroom 202 of the Lake County courthouse, 18 N. County Street, Waukegan, IL 60085, with remote access through the 19th Judicial Circuit’s remote-session page. The agreement then counts in steps: the settlement is “Final” on the date of final approval if no objection was filed, or after the appeal period runs if one was; it takes effect one business day later; and payments go out “within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date, or as soon as practicable.” The FAQ’s own estimate is “within approximately 60 days after the Settlement has been finally approved,” later if anyone appeals. We have not seen whether any objection was filed by September 28.

HireVue was due to pay $100,000 within 14 days of preliminary approval and two payments of $1,325,000 within 30 and 60 days — $2,750,000 before the hearing, by our count — with the balance due within seven days of the effective date. You can choose a check or a digital payment. Watch the check date: checks “uncashed for any reason within seventy-five (75) days after the issuance of such checks shall be deemed void and will not be re-issued for any reason,” and that money also goes to HireVue.

Notice went out on July 30, 2026, and the agreement required a second, reminder email to the same list 30 days after the notice date, so getting two emails is expected. A genuine notice points to VideoInterviewBIPASettlement.com and gives a Claim ID and PIN; it comes from the administrator, not from the employer you interviewed with. The official contacts are info@VideoInterviewBIPASettlement.com, (833) 421-7334, and the Santa Ana P.O. box above. Class counsel is McGuire Law, P.C. in Chicago, and the FAQ says “You will not be charged for these lawyers.” Filing costs nothing. If a message asks you to pay a fee, or sends you anywhere other than that domain or the Simpluris P.O. box, check it with the administrator first.

People searching for this settlement also ask: What is the amount of the Illinois Facebook settlement payout, and how much will each person get? That is a different, closed case — In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation, No. 3:15-cv-03747 in the Northern District of California. Judge James Donato approved it on February 26, 2021, writing that “the $650 million settlement … will put at least $345 into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated.” The docket closed on April 12, 2021, and this settlement has nothing to do with Facebook payments; questions about those go to that case, not to Simpluris.

The comparison still helps. Judge Donato called Facebook’s fund “one the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation” and a “non-reversionary common fund,” meaning no money went back to Facebook. By December 14, 2020, 1,571,608 claim forms had been filed, “a claims rate of around 22%” on a class of 6.9 million. HireVue is built the other way round: a fixed $150 maximum, with the remainder reverting. At a claims rate like Facebook’s, our arithmetic says HireVue claims would pass the roughly 16,500 that the net fund covers at $150, and every payment would be cut. At lower rates, every claimant gets $150 and HireVue keeps the rest.