The Oracle Privacy Settlement Pays $37.42 per Valid Claim — About 50 Percent More Than the Court’s $25 Estimate — Between September 21 and December 7, 2026. Only People Who Filed by October 17, 2024 Get It.

As of October 8, 2026, the update at the top of the court-authorized settlement website reads in full: “Settlement payments will begin to be sent to valid claimants on September 21, 2026, and should be completed by December 7, 2026. The settlement will provide $37.42 to each valid claimant. Payment method changes may no longer be made; however, there will be an opportunity to select a different payment method if the original payment method you selected is unsuccessful. Please monitor your email during this period.”

That is a flat amount, not an estimate and not a range. The settlement FAQ has always said every valid claim gets “one equal pro rata share” of the net fund, and that each person could file “only one claim.” Nobody gets more for having had more data collected, for living in California, or for having filed early; an objector argued on appeal that this equal split was unfair, and the Ninth Circuit rejected that argument. If you filed a valid claim, $37.42 is what you should receive in this first round; if you did not file, you receive nothing.

The money moves over roughly eleven weeks, not on a single day. A payment that has not arrived by early October does not mean a claim was rejected. The administrator’s own window runs to December 7, 2026; only after that date is a missing payment a reason to contact Angeion.

In its November 2024 order granting attorneys’ fees, the court wrote that “the $115 million Settlement Fund will enable the distribution of approximately $25 in compensation to every valid claimant,” adding that this was “significant compensatory relief, given that Class Members had no out-of-pocket damages.” The actual figure is $37.42 — about 50 percent more, by our arithmetic. The official site does not explain the difference; the usual reasons are fewer valid claims than projected after duplicates and suspected fraud were removed, lower administration costs, or interest earned while the money sat through the appeal.

The deductions are on the record. Judge Seeborg awarded class counsel, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, “25 percent of the total Settlement Fund, or $28.75 million, in attorneys’ fees and $211,350.52 in expenses,” and $10,000 each to the two class representatives, $20,000 in total. Angeion agreed to handle notice, administration and distribution for “a total amount not to exceed $4.8 million.” Taking those maximums, at least about $81.2 million was left for claimants before interest and taxes. Divided by $37.42, that works out to roughly 2.17 million valid claims, again by our arithmetic. The administrator has not published the count. The notice campaign reached, by the court’s account, “approximately 83.33 percent of the target audience of 220 million Americans”; on our estimate, about 1 percent of that audience ended up with a valid claim.

There may be a little more later. The FAQ says that if electronic transfers fail or paper checks go uncashed, the administrator “may make a second pro rata payment based on the non-transferred funds” to people who were already paid, unless the remainder is too small to distribute, in which case it goes to nonprofit organizations approved by the court. None of the money goes back to Oracle. No second-round date or amount has been announced.

If you filed by October 17, 2024: do nothing except watch your email, including the spam folder. You will be paid the way you chose on the claim form: Zelle, Venmo, ACH transfer, virtual prepaid card or paper check. You can no longer switch methods. If your Zelle, Venmo or bank details have changed and the transfer fails, the site says you will get “an opportunity to select a different payment method”, and that offer comes by email. If you have moved or changed your email address since filing, the FAQ makes it “your responsibility to inform the Settlement Administrator,” through the Contact page on KatzPrivacySettlement.com.

If you did not file: there is nothing left to file. The claim deadline was October 17, 2024, both online and by postmark, and the exclusion and objection deadlines fell on the same day. The FAQ is blunt: by doing nothing, you “will not receive any monetary compensation from the Settlement.” Since you did not opt out, you are still bound by the release.

If December 7, 2026 passes with no payment: contact Angeion at 1-888-255-4036, by email at Questions@KatzPrivacySettlement.com, or by mail at Katz-Lacabe et al v. Oracle America, Inc., c/o Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Have your claim ID ready if you kept it.

Real messages are coming. The administrator itself tells claimants to “monitor your email during this period,” and failed electronic payments lead to an email offering a new payment method. That makes this payout an easy target for impersonators. Three checks catch most fakes:

• The amount is fixed at $37.42. A message promising hundreds of dollars, a “bonus” or a “priority payout” for this case is not describing this settlement.
• Nobody can file a new claim. Any message inviting you to “claim now,” “confirm eligibility” or “reactivate” a claim for the Oracle settlement is false, because claims closed October 17, 2024.
• You never pay to get paid. No court-supervised administrator charges a fee to release a settlement payment, and none asks for your bank login or a one-time passcode sent to your phone.

If an email asks you to pick a new payment method, don’t click its links. Type KatzPrivacySettlement.com into your browser yourself, or call 1-888-255-4036 and ask whether a payment to you actually failed. We have not reviewed any individual message, and the official site has not posted a scam warning as of October 8, 2026.

Two people filed the case on August 19, 2022, and it was later certified as a nationwide class covering “all natural persons residing in the United States whose personal information, or data derived from their personal information, was acquired, captured, or otherwise collected by Oracle Advertising technologies or made available for use or sale by or through ID Graph, Data Marketplace, or any other Oracle Advertising product or service from August 19, 2018” to final judgment. The complaint alleged that Oracle “improperly captured, compiled, and sold individuals’ online and offline data to third parties without obtaining their consent.” Oracle denies all the allegations and any wrongdoing, and says its practices were lawful and disclosed. The settlement is not a finding against the company.

The settlement agreement was executed on July 8, 2024. Besides the cash fund, Oracle agreed not to capture user-generated information in referrer URLs or, outside its own websites, text typed into web forms, and to run an audit program on customers’ privacy obligations. According to the fee order, “soon after reaching this Settlement, Oracle announced it would shut down its ad tech business unit.” Judge Seeborg granted final approval after a hearing on November 14, 2024, and overruled the objections. An objector appealed. The Ninth Circuit affirmed on February 13, 2026 (No. 24-7648), and its mandate issued on March 31, 2026. A second appeal, No. 24-7650, was also docketed in the Ninth Circuit; we have not checked how it ended. Payments were scheduled to start on September 21. Measured against other privacy settlements, $37.42 per person is modest but not unusual. What stands out is the gap between a class of up to 220 million people and a payout that, on our estimate, reaches only about one in a hundred of them.