RushCard Service Disruption Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed

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Top Class Actions viewers are starting to receive checks in the mail from a class action settlement that accused RushCard prepaid debit card processing companies of causing account holders to experience a lengthy service disruption in October 2015.

According to reader comments, Class Members who submitted timely and valid claims for the RushCard class action settlement began receiving checks worth as much as $100 on Dec. 27, 2016.

If you filed a claim for the RushCard service disruption settlement, keep an eye on your mailbox because checks are on their way!

The RushCard settlement resolves allegations that prepaid debit account holders were without access to their funds from Oct. 12, 2015 to Oct. 31, 2015.

Initially, prepaid debit cardholders were told that the service disruption would be “brief,” but plaintiffs claim that the unusually long suspension left them without access to their funds.

A class action lawsuit was filed by RushCard account holders who claimed that not having the ability to pay for basic needs such as food, gas, or rent was an unnecessary burden.

RushCard processing companies including UniRush LLC, Rush Communications LLC, Rush Communications of NYC Inc., Meta Financial Group Inc., MetaBank, and MasterCard Incorporated denied any wrongdoing but agreed to pay $20.5 million to resolve the litigation against them.

Class Members included all RushCard cardholders with an open account as of Oct. 12, 2015 and who had authorized the use of that account at least once between July 14, 2015 and Oct. 12, 2015.

The deadline to file a claim for the RushCard prepaid debit card settlement passed on Aug. 30, 2016.

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The plaintiffs are represented by John A. Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group, Jean Sutton Martin of Law Office of Jean Sutton Martin PLLC, Charles J. LaDuca of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP, Michael McShane of Audet & Partners LLP, Hunter J. Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, Lewis Eidson of Colson Hicks Eidson and Joseph G. Sauder of McCuneWright LLP.

The RushCard Service Disruption Class Action Lawsuit is Stephanie Fuentes, et al. v. UniRush LLC, et al., Case No. 1:15-cv-08372, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.