Lower-income people in Washington State are getting cheques in the mail from a $35.5-million settlement in price-fixing cases for chicken and tuna.
The payouts actually total $40.6 million, the state attorney general Bob Ferguson said.
The cheques will go to about 402,000 households whose income is below 175 per cent of the federal poverty level.
Singles will get $50 and multi-person households will get $120. The cheques are supposed to arrive before Dec. 31.
Fifteen of 19 chicken companies have settled out of court. Trials remain for three – Foster Farms, House of Raeford and Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
The court has scheduled the trial for October.
