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The lawsuits allege lax EPA oversight and agency negligence are partly to blame for the length of time Flint residents lived with lead contamination in their drinking water.

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.

In a federal court filing Friday, Special Master Deborah Greenspan wrote the payments would range from approximately $100,000 to $1,000.

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.

Special master Deborah Greenspan Deborah said processing all the paperwork submitted by last June has taken much longer than expected.

The ruling came in a case where four children were suing two engineering firms for their role in Flint’s water system

The case involved damage claims on behalf of four children exposed to Flint’s lead tainted drinking water. The lawsuit their families brought targeted two engineering firms hired as consultants on Flint’s water system.

In a report to the federal judge overseeing the settlement, the claims administrator said about 72% of the claims are for personal injury. The rest assert a property damage or business-related claim.

The lawsuit is on behalf of four Flint children exposed to the city’s lead tainted drinking water. The jury is resuming deliberations after a 12 day break.