Amazon is set to pay out refunds to qualifying Prime users after a settlement the Federal Trade Commission called "historic."

The retail giant agreed to the settlement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the FTC filed in 2023 where federal officials alleged Amazon coerced millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime subscriptions, then made those agreements extremely difficult to cancel.

Amazon said in a statement after settlement was announced Sept. 25 that "it always followed the law" and that it worked "incredibly hard to make it clear and simple for customers to both sign up or cancel their Prime membership." Amazon agreed to make some changes to its website as a part of the settlement.

The amount of money each customer gets from the $2.5 billion settlement is based on the total

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