Tyson Foods accounts for $85,000,000 of the $117.065 million in proposed pork price-fixing settlements, roughly 73 percent of the total. None of it is final: a federal judge in Minnesota holds a final approval hearing on December 11, 2026, and the money moves only if the deal stands. Consumers who bought pork at grocery stores between 2014 and 2018 have until October 29, 2026 to file.
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Pork settlement notice dates. The notice stacks a claim postmark, an opt-out postmark and a hearing; The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice.
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Tyson’s $85,000,000 is a share of the total, not the total
The August 28, 2026 class notice lists the five settlements that make up the $117.065 million. Tyson is at $85,000,000. Clemens is at $13,500,000, Seaboard at $10,000,000, Hormel at $4,465,000 and Triumph at $4,100,000. Added together, the four smaller deals come to $32.065 million, so Tyson’s single payment is more than twice everything the other four would pay combined.
That arithmetic matters because headlines about one company’s number tend to be read as the size of the whole pot. The notice states the $117.065 million figure as the total across the five defendants, and the $85,000,000 as one part of it.
The money does not arrive as a flat check. According to the notice, payment is pro rata, meaning a cash share proportional to the amount of pork a claimant purchased. No per-person figure appears in the notice or on the administrator’s website, and none can be computed until the court sets the final pool and the claims are counted.
A proposed deal, a hearing on December 11 and a judge’s decision
The notice gives December 11, 2026 as the date of the final approval hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The case is In re Pork Antitrust Litigation, No. 0:18-cv-1776-JRT-JFD, a number carried on the settlement administrator’s website, OverchargedForPork.com.
Until that hearing, the settlements are agreements the parties have proposed. The court can approve them, and it can also decline to. A refusal or a delay would leave the $85,000,000 and every other figure in the notice as terms on paper rather than a fund. Claims are due more than five weeks before that decision.
The dates that run before the judge rules
Two postmark dates fall on the same day. The notice sets October 29, 2026 as the date a claim must be submitted or postmarked. It sets the same October 29 postmark for opting out of or objecting to the settlements. The administrator’s site, read on October 5, shows that October 29 date for the Tyson group of settlements, and shows April 22, 2026 as a date that has already passed for JBS and Smithfield, whose window is separate.
Those dates carry different consequences, and the notice treats them as separate choices. A claim asks for a share of the fund. An opt-out or an objection is a statement to the court about the deal itself. The administrator lists a contact address, admin@OverchargedForPork.com, and a toll-free number, 1-888-287-5434, for questions the website does not answer.
Who counts as a class member, and which purchases the notice covers
The class is defined by what was bought and where. The notice covers pork products purchased for personal consumption between June 28, 2014 and June 30, 2018, in specified states and jurisdictions, and it describes personal consumption as buying at a grocery store or supermarket for the buyer’s own household. Purchases made directly from the defendants fall outside that definition. A claimant therefore has to line up three things at once: the date of the purchase, the place of the purchase and the purpose of it.
The pro rata structure adds a second difficulty. Because each share is proportional to the pork a claimant bought, the amount depends on the claimant’s own purchase history, which for a four-year window reaching back to 2014 is usually not a single receipt but a recollection of a household’s shopping. The notice does not spell out what, if any, proof of purchase the claim form asks for, and it refers readers to the administrator’s site for the list of covered states. Those two details decide which purchases count, and both sit on the administrator’s pages rather than in the notice.
The route through the administrator’s site is the official one, and it is not a paid service.
Tracking open settlements while a hearing date approaches
MoneyPilot is a paid subscription service that lists open class-action settlements and shows which ones may match a member’s purchases. It files claim forms on members’ behalf and tracks deadlines and payout status. The pork case, with a claim date ahead of a December court hearing, is the type of multi-date matter such a service says it follows.
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This article was drafted with AI assistance from the settlement administrator’s website and the August 28, 2026 class notice, then checked against those sources before publication.
Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
