Cash App Class Action Lawsuit
Block settled a lawsuit over Cash App's Invite Friends referral texts sent to people in Washington for $12,500,000. The deadline to file a claim was October 27, 2025.
What happens next with the Cash App settlement
The claim deadline passed on October 27, 2025. New claims for this settlement are no longer being accepted.
Payments come after approval, and after any appeals. Anyone who objected to the settlement can ask a higher court to look at it again — an appeal — and that has to finish first. Eligible payments are sent once approval is final, and the stretch from a claim deadline to money in hand often runs a year or more. It varies from one settlement to the next.
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Cash App Class Action Lawsuit
If you lived in Washington and a friend's Cash App invite showed up in your texts, the lawsuit behind this settlement says that message broke state law.
The lawsuit, Bottoms v. Block, Inc., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on December 21, 2023. According to the settlement notice, the woman who sued, Kimberly Bottoms, alleges that Block encouraged Cash App users to send pre-filled text messages to their contacts through the app's Invite Friends referral program, without first getting the recipients' clear and affirmative consent to receive commercial texts.
The lawsuit says this broke two Washington state laws. The Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) limits commercial text messages sent to people in Washington, and under it a recipient is entitled to $500 for each text sent in violation of the law, or actual damages. The Washington Consumer Protection Act bans unfair business practices, and the plaintiff contends it allows those damages to be tripled. Block denies any wrongdoing and says it complied with the law.
Cash App Class Action Settlement - $12,500,000
Block agreed to pay $12,500,000 to settle the lawsuit. As part of the settlement, Block does not admit any wrongdoing, maintains that it complied with the law and continues to deny the allegations.
The fund paid the cost of notice and administration, court-awarded attorneys' fees and expenses, and a service award to the woman who brought the case. The rest was split among people in the settlement class who filed a valid claim form by October 27, 2025. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held the final approval hearing and entered final approval on December 2, 2025 (case 2:23-cv-01969).
In an update dated April 1, 2026, the settlement website says all failed digital payments and returned checks had been reissued as paper checks, and that most checks were expected to be delivered by April 8, 2026.
Claims closed: October 27, 2025
Cash App Invite Friends Texts Class Action Payout: $394.36 per accepted claim
The settlement split the money left after costs and fees equally among accepted claims. The settlement notice estimated payments of $88 to $147 per claimant. The settlement website says the final Settlement Award is $394.36 per accepted claim.
That figure is the settlement's own, not an estimate, and it was paid only to people in the class who filed a valid claim by October 27, 2025.
Cash App Invite Friends Texts Class Action Eligibility
The settlement covered everyone who received a Cash App referral program text message between November 14, 2019 and August 7, 2025, and who lived in Washington when they got it. People who had clearly and affirmatively agreed in advance to receive Cash App referral texts were not included.
To be paid, a person in the class had to file a claim form by October 27, 2025.
FAQ
No. The deadline to file a claim was October 27, 2025, and it has passed. The court granted final approval on December 2, 2025, so only people in the class who filed a valid claim by the deadline share in the settlement.
The settlement website says the Settlement Award is $394.36 per accepted claim. That was paid only to people in the class who filed a valid claim by October 27, 2025. The settlement notice had estimated $88 to $147 before claims came in.
Contact the settlement administrator, Postlethwaite & Netterville, at info@BottomsTextSettlement.com or 1-877-540-7545. In April 2026 the settlement website said most reissued checks would be delivered by April 8, 2026, and asked anyone still without a check after that date to email.
No. The class was limited to people who lived in Washington when they received a Cash App referral text between November 14, 2019 and August 7, 2025. The lawsuit was brought under Washington state law, the Commercial Electronic Mail Act and the Consumer Protection Act.
No. Block denies any wrongdoing, maintains that it complied with the law and does not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. The settlement resolves the lawsuit's allegations without a finding by the court.