Last chance to file a claim in the Dollar General class action settlement

Monday, April 13, is the deadline for consumers to record a assertion successful a multi-million dollar people enactment colony lawsuit involving discount retailer Dollar General.

According to the website for the settlement, Dollar General agreed to the colony successful a lawsuit wherever the institution is alleged to person discrepancies betwixt the prices of merchandise advertised connected the shelves and what customers were charged astatine checkout. Dollar General denies immoderate wrongdoing.

All consumers successful the United States who paid much for merchandise than the advertised terms labeled connected the support astatine a Dollar General store from Oct. 10, 2016, done Nov. 19, 2025, are eligible to record a claim. Some impacted customers received emails earlier this twelvemonth notifying them that they qualified for the settlement.

Here's what to cognize astir the colony and however to record a claim.

Consumers request to record oregon instrumentality the assertion by April 13, 2026, successful bid to person a currency outgo from the colony fund. The opt-out deadline was March 2.

Consumers tin taxable a assertion oregon registry for the in-store payment connected the Dollar General colony website.

Consumers suffice for a currency outgo if they tin amusement circumstantial impervious that they complained betwixt Oct. 10, 2016, and Nov. 19, 2025, astir an overcharge to a authorities bureau oregon Dollar General directly, and the ailment specifically referenced an overcharge. The ailment besides has to stay unresolved by Dollar General.

You tin besides suffice for a currency outgo if you tin supply documentation of being overcharged during that time. This mightiness see a dated photograph of a support terms and a matching receipt.

Consumers eligible for the currency outgo volition either person $10 oregon the magnitude of the overcharge, whichever is higher. There is besides a maximum of 2 overcharge claims per household, meaning each household is eligible for $20 full oregon the full magnitude of the overcharges if that magnitude is higher.

Additionally, colony people members are eligible for an in-store benefit, which is simply a $3 discount connected the archetypal $10 of immoderate acquisition of astatine slightest $10 pre-tax. Consumers bash not request to supply impervious of overcharge to get this benefit. The in-store payment is disposable for redemption during a two-day model astatine immoderate Dollar General store nationwide.

That two-day model volition beryllium from June 1-2, 2026, according to the colony website, nevertheless the discount cannot beryllium combined with immoderate different Dollar General store coupons. It tin beryllium combined with nationalist shaper coupons, though.