flint water settlement

An online portal started processing payments for about 7,000 property damage claims since December 12. According to the official settlement website, 2,854 payments had been made as of Tuesday evening.

People in Flint should start receiving letters in the mail this week informing them how much money they will receive from the Flint water settlement fund.

Friday's court order says a letter will be sent to each claimant with instructions on how to set up their payment. There's more than $600 million in the settlement fund.

Starting in 2014, tens of thousands of people living and working in Flint were exposed to lead and other contaminants in their drinking water. The exposure began after the ill-fated decision to change the source of the city’s tap water.

More than 58,000 claims were filed for a share of an settlement pool worth more than $600 million set up by the state of Michigan and other groups in 2020.

The work on the Flint water crisis settlement fund continues and there are some key deadlines approaching. Attorney Trachelle Young discusses what's next in the process.

Tens of thousands of Flint residents have been waiting for years to see if they will receive a share of a more than $600 million settlement of legal claims.

Veolia North America, a private engineering firm that provided consulting services to the city of Flint, has agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims in a Flint Water Crisis lawsuit.

Judge Newblatt's decision is the latest court ruling moving the $626 million settlement forward.

Flint was supposed to replace all its lead service lines by early 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other complications, the city hasn’t finished yet.