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Nearly 800,000 California and Pennsylvania residents may be eligible to participate in a class action lawsuit settlement involving two debt-collection companies that allegedly forced consumers into paying for “Financial Accountability” classes as part of a Bad Check Restitution Program. If approved, Class Members will receive $75 cash from the $3 million class action settlement.
Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit accuse American Corrective Counseling Services (ACCS) and National Corrective Group (NCG), which operates as Corrective Solutions, of violating various laws by making false and misleading statements and seeking and collecting fees unauthorized by law when carrying out bad check diversion programs in the names of district attorneys.
According to the Corrective Solutions class action lawsuit, ACCS and NCG would mail notices, printed on local DA’s letterhead stationery, ordering consumers who wrote checks with insufficient funds to pay hundreds of dollars to attend a “Financial Accountability” class. Consumers who didn’t pay the fee and attend the class were threatened with criminal prosecution.
American Corrective Counseling Services and National Corrective Group deny the allegations but have agreed to a $3 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve the litigation.
Class Members of the ACCS, NCG class action lawsuit settlement include anyone who received a District Attorney Bad Check Restitution Program Notice in California between January 4, 2006 and August 31, 2011 or in Pennsylvania between January 25, 2004 and August 31, 2011, which was printed on letterhead stationary from one of the District Attorneys listed on the Settlement Website: www.SmithSettlement.com.
Class Members that submit a valid Claim Form no later than February 14, 2013 will receive $75 cash from the class action lawsuit settlement. This amount may be higher or lower, depending on how many people file valid Claims.
Claim Forms and more information on your rights in the Corrective Solutions District Attorney Bad Check Restitution Program Class Action Settlement can be found at www.SmithSettlement.com.
The case is Smith v. National Corrective Group, Inc., Case No. 10-cv-0010 JSW, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.
UPDATE 12/24/13: The class action settlement was rejected in December 2012 for being “problematic.” The Settlement website has been taken down, so no updates are available.
UPDATE 6/20/14:An amended class action settlement agreement was entered in August 2013, was granted final approval on May 5, 2014, and became effective May 6, 2014. Payments are expected to be mailed to Class Members in late July 2014, according to the Settlement Administrator. Settlement Class Members who received notice of the DA Bad Check Restitution Program Class Action Settlement will automatically receive payment. Those who did not receive a notice had to submit a claim by April 1, 2014 to participate. If you receive a check, let us know!
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200 thoughts onDA Bad Check Restitution Program Class Action Settlement
Well honestly we all can’t completely blame the lawyers .. The amount began at 100…000 .. And everyone started to call friends and family .. They told other ppl .. And word spread .. Therefore our amount got smaller ., so oh well thank you for the additional million claim forms
No joke… Live in California and received my check Saturday 2.04. Called the number and once check is issued, which they all are at this point…. You are the proud owner of a garbage, piece of nothing crap 2.04 or 6.00 payment!!!!! Case is closed.
Great job attorneys! Your laughing your way all way to the bank with your MILLION DOLLAR CHECKS! We got duped!
I was told hundred thousand as well.. I feel they shouldn’t give a false amount.. Whatever .. I didn’t get my payment but I’ll be calling the law office after I get it .. My boyfriend told me don’t get my hopes up on this .. It just seem to be so damn true now I see this is some type of frued
i was told i was going to get anywhere from 5,000.00 up to 100,000.00 and i got mine for 6.53 and it dont even look like a real check what a joke we should start a lawsuit for all the lies we were told
Well tomorrow we all should have our checks .. Perhaps it’s going to be eleven six dollars checks for each person lol haha
I would have been satisfied with the $75.00 too. That’s all I wanted back. I hope the lawyers read these comments! Just so they know how we feel like we were lied to! And you know the more people they get in their class action law suits the more money the judgement is and the more money they get because they’re representing this obscene amount of people and in the end we look like fools so they can get all they money!
I just don’t know what they expect us do with a $6.00 check. I thought it was gonna be $75 and I was going to be satisfied with that amount.
Maria Munoz, so u received 2 checks yesterday both for $6.00 even? Looks like they are sending different amounts. Some received checks for $2.04 and $6.53. Something don’t seem right. I’ll just wait and see how much mines will be. Hopefully tomorrow.
Islandchic, yes I received 2 separate checks for $6.00 each. This is a joke. Oh and I live in California. And I’m not sure if I should cash them! I want to know what happened to the $75.00.
Received two post card checks in the mail yesterday.. Both for $6.53. I live in PA. I will say this, I was expecting more, especially since I know I paid this company well over $100 to take the “class”. Bunch of BS if you ask me.
I got 2 checks for $6.00! Today this is bull crap!