Tinder Age-Based Pricing Settlement: Approved, Not Yet Paid

At a glance

Status

Approved, awaiting payment

Defendant

Tinder, Inc. (Match Group)

Settlement fund

$60,500,000

Claim deadline

August 18, 2026

No-proof cash option

Yes — pro rata cash; class members choose PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, ACH, or mailed check; no receipts required

Estimated payout

pro rata cash; class members choose PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, ACH, or mailed check; no receipts required

Official site

www.tindercalclassaction.com

Court

Allan Candelore v. Tinder, Inc., Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County

Case number

BC583162

Last verified September 10, 2026

Key dates

Milestone	Date	What it means
Claim deadline	August 18, 2026(passed)	Last day to file for a payment
Opt-out (exclusion) deadline	April 8, 2026(passed)	Last day to leave the settlement and keep the right to sue
Objection deadline	April 8, 2026(passed)	Last day to object to the terms
Final approval hearing	June 4, 2026(passed)	When the judge decides whether to approve the settlement
Expected payout	Not yet scheduled	Payments are not sent until after final approval and any appeals

Where to file

The only place to file is the official settlement website:

Verify on the official site

www.tindercalclassaction.com

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If you paid for Tinder Plus or Tinder Gold in California and noticed you were charged more than a friend under 30, you may be part of the class in Candelore v. Tinder, Inc. As of September 9, 2026, the $60.5 million settlement over Tinder's age-based pricing has final court approval, and the August 18, 2026 deadline for class members to choose how they get paid has passed. The settlement record still lists no payout date. Here is what the case was about, who is covered, and what happens next.

What Tinder is accused of doing

The case is Allan Candelore v. Tinder, Inc., filed in the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, case number BC583162. Candelore's complaint alleged that Tinder charged users age 30 and older more per month for Tinder Plus than it charged younger users for the same subscription, based only on their age.

Tinder initially won dismissal at the trial court. Candelore appealed, and in a published opinion filed January 29, 2018, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, reversed. The court held that charging older users more, based on a broad generalization about their finances rather than anything about the individual person, could violate California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, the state law that bars businesses from arbitrary discrimination, including discrimination based on age. That ruling sent the case back for further litigation rather than ending it.

The class that eventually resulted covers people who paid the higher, age-tiered price: California users who bought Tinder Plus or Tinder Gold while older than 29 on or after March 2, 2015, or older than 28 on or after March 2, 2016. Tinder has not admitted wrongdoing; a settlement resolves a case without either side proving its version of events at trial.

Where the case stands right now, as of September 2026

This settlement is further along than most on this tracker: it already has final approval. The court granted final approval on June 4, 2026, and the deadline for class members to exclude themselves from the class or object to the settlement, April 8, 2026, had already passed by then.

What has not happened yet is payment. The verified settlement record does not list an expected payout date, so there is no confirmed date for when payments will actually go out. The step that remained was administrative: class members had to either confirm how they wanted to be paid, or, if they never got a notice directly, prove they belonged in the class, by August 18, 2026. That date has now passed.

That August date is worth pausing on, because it is easy to mistake for a standard "file your claim by this date" deadline, and it was not quite that. Tinder's own billing records already show who paid the higher price, so most class members do not need to submit a claim form the way you would for a typical data breach settlement. Instead, August 18, 2026 was the deadline to select a payment method, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, ACH bank transfer, or a mailed paper check, or, only if you did not receive notice directly, to submit a Verification Form establishing that you are a class member.

Who's actually in the class

You may be part of the class if you purchased Tinder Plus or Tinder Gold in California at the higher, age-based price. Specifically, the class covers people who were older than 29 when they subscribed in California on or after March 2, 2015, and people who were older than 28 when they subscribed in California on or after March 2, 2016.

Simply having used Tinder is not enough on its own. The claim is specifically about the price you were charged for a paid subscription tier because of your age, not about using the free version of the app or any other Tinder feature.

How much you can realistically expect

The fund is $60.5 million, and payouts are pro rata cash, meaning your share depends on how many other class members are ultimately paid and what the court approved for attorneys' fees and costs. The settlement record does not list a specific per-person dollar estimate, a documented-loss cap, or a separate reimbursement tier for people who paid more than others.

That means there is no confirmed "up to $X" figure to cite here, and any specific dollar amount quoted elsewhere for this settlement is not something we can verify against the official record. No receipts or proof of the amount you were overcharged are required to receive a payment; the fund is divided among the class based on the payment-method or Verification Form step described below, not on documentation of a specific dollar loss.

What class members had to do by August 18, 2026

If Tinder sent you notice of this settlement directly, most likely by email tied to your account, your task was to choose how you wanted to be paid: PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, ACH bank transfer, or a mailed check. A class member who made no selection was still expected to be paid by a default method rather than left out, though the exact default is not spelled out in the verified record.

A class member who did not receive notice directly but believed they belonged in the class instead had to submit a Verification Form by that same August 18, 2026 date, attesting to eligibility. Both steps happened only on the official settlement site, which is now the place to check on the status of a selection you already made.

If you already got a payment, or nothing here matches your situation

Because no payout date has been set, no one should have received a check or deposit from this settlement yet. A payment that claims to be from this case and already arrived is worth checking against the official site before you assume it is legitimate. If you paid for Tinder Plus or Gold outside California, or you were never charged the higher, age-tiered price, the verified record here does not describe you as part of this class.

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