How to File the Pork Price-Fixing Settlement Claim by October 29

The consumer pork settlements are the October 2026 claim with the lowest bar to entry: if you bought bacon or fresh pork at a grocery store for your own household in 23 states or the District of Columbia between mid-2014 and mid-2018, you are in the class, and the site does not ask for receipts to file. The case is In re Pork Antitrust Litigation in federal court in Minnesota, the settling companies are paying $117.065 million combined, and the only way to receive a share is a claim form submitted online or postmarked by Thursday, October 29, 2026. Here is what the court-authorized site says about who qualifies, which cuts count, what the form asks, and why nobody can tell you the amount yet. The other eleven October deadlines are in our October claim deadlines tracker.

The quick answer

• Deadline: the claim form “must be submitted online… by October 29, 2026, or mailed to the Settlement Administrator… postmarked by October 29, 2026”
• Who: anyone who “indirectly purchased” covered pork “for personal consumption between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018” in one of 24 listed jurisdictions. “Indirectly” means “you bought it at a grocery store or supermarket”
• What counts: “raw pork bacon,” or raw pork, fresh or frozen, “made from bellies, loins, shoulder, ribs, or pork chops.” The official product list has 92 named cuts
• What does not: “any pork marketed as organic, no-antibiotics ever (NAE) and any product other than bacon that is marinated, seasoned, flavored, or breaded”
• Proof: “You do not need to provide any documentation at this time. However, the Settlement Administrator may ask for additional information or documentation to support your claim”
• Amount: “At this time, it is unknown how much each Class Member… will receive”
• Official site: overchargedforpork.com, run by the administrator Epiq. Help is at admin@OverchargedForPork.com or 1-888-287-5434

Key facts at a glance

Question	Answer
Case	In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (Consumer Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs), D. Minn., No. 18-1776, Judge John R. Tunheim
Total paid by settling defendants	$117.065 million
Purchase window	June 28, 2014 to June 30, 2018
Where you had to buy	23 states and the District of Columbia (list below)
Claim deadline	October 29, 2026, online or postmarked
Opt-out and objection deadline	October 29, 2026, postmarked, by mail only
Documentation to file	None required at filing; the administrator may ask later
Payment per person	Not stated; shared pro rata by purchases
Final approval hearing	December 11, 2026, 11:00 a.m. Central, Minneapolis
Earlier JBS and Smithfield settlements	Claim period closed

Who qualifies: when, where, and what

The settlement FAQ sets three tests, and you need all of them.

When. The purchase happened “between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018.”

Where. You bought in one of these jurisdictions: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia. That is 23 states plus D.C. What matters is where you bought the pork, and Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, and Washington are among the large states that are not on the list.

What. The pork was bought “for personal consumption,” and you bought it “indirectly,” which the site defines plainly: “you did not buy the pork products directly from one of the Defendants. Instead, you bought it at a grocery store or supermarket.”

The class excludes the defendants, their officers, directors and employees, government entities, the presiding judge’s family and staff, and named co-conspirators. Ordinary shoppers are not in any excluded group.

Which pork counts: the 92-cut list

The site publishes an official “List of Included Pork Products (Fresh or Frozen)” with 92 entries, and a lookup tool that searches it. The heading on the list states the rule: “Includes only raw uncooked products. Excludes pre-cooked products and products that are organic, no-antibiotics ever (NAE), marinated, seasoned, flavored, or breaded.”

Everyday items on the list include bacon (“any variety of raw pork bacon, including Canadian bacon”), pork chops in most named styles, baby back ribs, spareribs, St. Louis ribs, country-style ribs, pork loin, tenderloin, Boston butt, pork shoulder, picnic roast, pork belly, and pork steak.

Two things to notice before you estimate your purchases:

• We found no entry for ham, sausage, or ground pork on the 92-item list. The class definition is limited to bacon and raw cuts “made from bellies, loins, shoulder, ribs, or pork chops,” so do not count those products unless the lookup tool says otherwise
• Bacon is the exception to the seasoning rule. The FAQ excludes “any product other than bacon that is marinated, seasoned, flavored, or breaded.” A pre-marinated tenderloin is out; raw bacon is in

Where the $117.065 million comes from

This round covers the defendants that were still in the case. Per the FAQ, “All Defendants have now settled.”

Defendant	Payment
Tyson	$85,000,000
Clemens	$13,500,000
Seaboard	$10,000,000
Hormel	$4,465,000
Triumph	$4,100,000
Agri Stats	No money; “has agreed to reform certain business practices”
Total	$117,065,000

Two earlier settlements, with JBS and Smithfield, are finished business: “The time period to submit a claim for those settlements is closed.” If you filed in that earlier round, this is a separate claim with its own form. The court “has not ruled that the Defendants did anything wrong, and the companies deny all allegations of wrongdoing.”

How much you might get, and why nobody knows

The site’s answer is direct: “At this time, it is unknown how much each Class Member that submits a timely and valid Claim Form will receive. Payments will be based on a number of factors, including the number of timely and valid Claim Forms filed.”

What it does state is the method. After deductions, “the settlement funds will be largely distributed pro rata… based on the number of purchases of Class Members submitting valid claims. The Claims Administrator may institute a minimum payment. There may be multiple rounds of distribution if economically feasible.”

The deductions are also on the record. Class counsel “will ask the Court for an award of attorneys’ fees up to 33 1/3%” of the gross amounts, “up to $5,000,000 in litigation expenses, settlement administration costs, and $3,000 service awards for each class representative.” By our arithmetic, a one-third fee on $117.065 million is about $39.0 million, so if the court grants the full fee and expense request, roughly $73 million remains before administration costs and service awards. The court “may award less than the requested amount.”

Any per-person dollar figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. The administrator has not published one.

How to file, step by step

1. Go to the official site by typing overchargedforpork.com yourself, and choose “Submit a Claim”
2. Enter your purchase information. The filing instructions say: “you will be asked to provide purchase information. You do not need to provide any documentation at this time.” Give an honest estimate; the administrator “may ask for additional information or documentation to support your claim”
3. Keep the confirmation. “You will receive an email with a confirmation code for your completed submission. Be sure to keep your confirmation email and code”
4. Or file by mail. Print the claim form from the site’s Documents page, then “fill out, sign, and date the Claim Form” and mail it to Consumer Indirect Pork Litigation, c/o Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 4000, Portland, OR 97208-4000
5. If you move, tell the administrator. “It is your responsibility to inform the Settlement Administrator of your updated information”

One warning on the mail route comes straight from the site and is easy to miss: “mail may not be postmarked the day it is deposited in a mailbox or at a local post office. Postmarks occur when mail reaches a processing facility. To meet a postmark deadline, mail at least a week prior to a postmark deadline, get a manual postmark in-person at any post office, or send via Certified Mail.” If you are filing on paper, treat October 22 as your real deadline.

Your other options, all due October 29

Option	What it does	How
File a claim	”The only way to get a cash payment”	Online or postmarked by October 29
Opt out	No payment, but you keep the right to sue Triumph, Hormel, Seaboard, Clemens, and Tyson yourself	Signed letter by mail, postmarked by October 29. “You cannot exclude yourself by telephone or by email”
Object	You stay bound but tell the court what you think is unfair	Signed letter mailed to both the administrator and the court, postmarked by October 29
Do nothing	You are bound by the settlements and “will not receive a cash payment”	No action

Doing nothing is the worst of the four for most shoppers: you give up the claims and collect nothing. Note also that “you cannot opt-out of the Agri Stats Settlement,” which pays no money either way.

When the money arrives

Not soon. “Your cash payment will be provided after the Settlements are approved by the Court and become final,” and the settlements “will only go into effect if the judge approves them and appeals are resolved.” The fairness hearing is “scheduled for December 11, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. CST before the Honorable John R. Tunheim” in Minneapolis, and “the judge may decide to move the hearing to a different date or time.” Expect a wait of months after that, and check the site rather than any email that claims to have your payment ready.

Lookalike sites and scam messages

• The only official site is overchargedforpork.com, and the administrator is Epiq. The contact points are admin@OverchargedForPork.com and 1-888-287-5434
• Nothing on the official site asks for a payment to file, and the class lawyers are free to you: “You will not be charged for these lawyers”
• A claim needs purchase information and contact details. A message asking for a bank login, a card number, or a fee to “release” pork settlement money is not from the administrator

The same habits apply to every claim in our October tracker, including the Flo app privacy claim that closes two weeks earlier, on October 15.

Bottom line

If you did the grocery shopping in any of the 23 listed states or D.C. between June 28, 2014 and June 30, 2018 and bought ordinary raw bacon, chops, ribs, loin, or shoulder, you qualify, and filing takes no receipts. Leave out ham, sausage, ground pork, and anything organic, NAE, or pre-seasoned. File online by October 29, 2026, keep the confirmation code, and expect payment only after the December 11 hearing and any appeals. The amount is unknown, and anyone quoting you a number is guessing.

Facts verified on September 19, 2026 against the court-authorized settlement site (home page, FAQ, filing instructions, summary notice, and the official product list; the site footer showed a last update of September 16, 2026). Every quotation is the administrator’s wording. We could not open the claim form PDF itself, so this guide describes the form only as far as the site’s own filing instructions do. The fee arithmetic is ours and is labeled as such. This is general information, not legal advice.