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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
Received my $91.70 check today! My Mom got one too!
I just received a check for $91.70 today!!!!
I received the check for $2.04, deposited it, and it bounced! Now I have a $20 returned check fee.
now you know why they want people on tv to file for class action lawsuits, just so lawyers get money,,,, all the money is for them, not the people hurt by the lawsuits, they used us!! ripped us off twice!!hope they die choking on their own blood. im gonna burn my 2.00 check!!! too much pride to cash it
I’ve never received my check. This pisses me off, my Doctors office sent me to the program for not calling them right away and making payment. Needless to say I fired that Doctor.
I have a claim number but I can’t find out where to locate my money. The phone number is just a recording.
IBad enough I’m out of work.a customer wasn’t looking back andony way in nto work .a duelly truck backed up and hit me in the back of my head. Seizures all the time and then my husband beat my ass and threw me out and said I was writing bad checks this one I had to drive to Nevada and pay 1500 for a BSD check. I didn’t do anything wrong. Now I have nothing anf d I’m hanging in there.I have a son and I’m going to end up losing him next.why would people I didn’t even know do somthing like this to me.I received the check for 2,04 .the greed I see is so not right. Thank you people for ruining my life.I did nothing to have corporate america ruin somone like me.sleep well.
I received two small checks for like 6.12 each. You know this is a damn shame they can’t pay us a lousy 75.00 for all the money we were defrauded into spending to go to a class. Had I known they were phony I would have never paid to begin with. Just lets you know these slick lawyers are all about lining their pockets and to help with the rest of us who were duped twice. I hope they could start giving people jail time for duping folks out of their hard earned cash instead of having people waiting on even less funds than they paid to try to rectify their problem. JERKS.
The help word should have been HELL my bad.
I received a check in the amount of $2.04. So much for $75.00, better be careful sounds like a set up trying to net you if you are someone that might be owing something to them. Like the warehouse gag saying you won something and when you got there, the police were awaiting you for warrants.
Received two checks, in the amount of $6.53 and we live in CA. This is our justice system at work! LOL – JOKE
BTW, my name is not on the check. It’s made out to “Attention Owner” where it says “pay to the order of” !!!