A second round of AdvoCare refunds is going out from the Federal Trade Commission. The agency is sending 170,571 more payments worth more than $11.4 million to former AdvoCare distributors who accepted their first payment, according to the FTC’s AdvoCare refund page, which carries an October 2026 date. No form is involved. Anyone in the group gets a check or a PayPal payment without filing a claim.

Who is getting a second payment

The page says the payments go to people who accepted their first payment. That is the whole test for this round. A former distributor who cashed the first check or took the first PayPal payment is in line for the second, and one who never accepted the first is not described as part of this group.

The payments trace back to an FTC case over the AdvoCare pyramid scheme. The FTC page says the company agreed to pay $150 million to settle the charges. In May 2022, the FTC announced it was returning more than $149 million to more than 224,000 consumers.

The original refund program was aimed at distributors who reached the Advisor level, spent much more on products than they got back in rewards, and met other criteria, the FTC page says. This round is described differently: it goes to people who accepted the first payment.

The 90-day and 30-day windows

The FTC’s request is plain. Anyone who gets a check should cash it within 90 days. Anyone who gets a PayPal payment should accept it within 30 days. The page gives only the number of days for each window, with no calendar date.

For a person who accepted the first payment years ago, the practical questions are whether the mailing address or PayPal account on file is still current, and where the first payment’s paperwork went. The FTC’s page lists the refund administrator, Analytics Consulting, LLC, with a phone number of 1-855-744-1802.

The FTC asks that AdvoCare checks be cashed within 90 days and PayPal payments accepted within 30, with no calendar date on either. The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes a claim log and payment tracker that records the day a payment arrives and the day its window ends.

Track the AdvoCare payment and its 90-day window in the Recovery System tracker →

The FTC has not said when each payment will go out or how the checks and PayPal payments are split. It also does not state a per-person amount. Dividing the totals, 170,571 payments sharing more than $11.4 million, gives an average of roughly $67 per payment, though that figure is a simple calculation from the FTC’s totals, not a number the agency publishes, and individual payments can differ.

Checks versus PayPal

The two payment types come with different clocks. A paper check has 90 days, and a PayPal payment has 30. Anyone who expects a PayPal payment has the shorter window to watch, and a payment sitting in an old or rarely checked account is the easiest one to miss.

The agency’s refund programs index lists AdvoCare among its active refunds and shows the same administrator, Analytics Consulting, LLC, so a caller can confirm a payment is real by checking the number against the FTC’s own site.

Refund scams around FTC payments

Big refund rounds draw impostors. The FTC says on its refund programs page that the agency will never threaten anyone, say money must be transferred to “get a refund,” or promise a prize. Someone who gets a call, text or email asking for a fee, a gift card or a bank login in exchange for an AdvoCare payment is dealing with a scammer, not the FTC. Reports can be filed at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.

A real payment in this round arrives without anyone asking for money first. The FTC’s page describes the payments as going to people who already accepted a first payment, so there is no claim to file and no one to pay for help getting it.

Cashing the AdvoCare check on time

The first job is to confirm the administrator and the FTC are working from the right address. The FTC’s AdvoCare refund page is the free place to read the current details, and the administrator’s phone line, 1-855-744-1802, is the contact it lists for questions about a payment.

When a check arrives, the date it was received can be written on the envelope or in a notebook, with the 90th day counted forward and marked. A check that gets deposited the same week removes the problem. People who get a PayPal payment have a shorter countdown of 30 days, so that notice should be opened as soon as it lands.

The FTC’s page does not say what happens to a check that goes uncashed past 90 days, so anyone holding an older check should call the administrator before assuming it is still good. The agency also keeps its refund statistics on a dashboard it says is updated at least quarterly.

A 90-day check window with no calendar date

The FTC gives AdvoCare payment recipients 90 days for a check and 30 for PayPal but no fixed day, so the countdown starts whenever the payment shows up. The Settlement & Refund Recovery System has a claim log and payment tracker, which holds the arrival date and the last day to cash it in one place. It is a 50-page system built around tracking exactly this kind of payment.

Log the AdvoCare payment date and deadline in the Recovery System →

This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.