Oregon is paying out a $4,919,409.99 pool to people who lost land to tax foreclosure in four counties, and the claim window is open until Monday, November 30, 2026. The four counties are Baker, Columbia, Jackson and Marion. Former owners, and the heirs and successors of former owners, can file online or by mail postmarked on or before that date.
The money is surplus: what a county’s foreclosure sale brought in beyond the unpaid taxes, fees and costs. The settlements let former owners file claims for a share of that difference. The pool is reported by OpenClassActions, which says the amount can grow if more foreclosed properties are sold before the claim deadline.
For a former owner or an heir, the question is whether the property falls inside a county’s dates and who is entitled to file. Each county has its own settlement website and its own window for foreclosures, so a family that lost land in more than one county may need more than one claim. The deadline for the four counties is the same, November 30.
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Is the November 30 claim window really open?
Yes. The Baker County settlement site and the Marion County settlement site each give the claim deadline as Monday, November 30, 2026. A claim can be submitted online through the site’s Submit Claim link, or by paper form postmarked on or before that date.
The September 17, 2026 date that appears on the same pages is the fairness hearing, set for 3:00 p.m. Pacific, and not a claim cutoff. OpenClassActions reports that the hearing has been held. The claim window continues for more than ten weeks after it.
Who counts as a former owner?
The county sites define the class broadly. Members are people who held, or are the heirs and successors of someone who held, an ownership interest in, or a valid lien on, real property foreclosed on for unpaid property taxes. A lienholder can therefore qualify, not only the person whose name was on the deed.
The dates differ by county. Baker County’s window runs from September 7, 2018 to June 7, 2024. Marion County’s runs from October 23, 2017 to June 7, 2024. Jackson and Columbia counties have their own sites with their own periods, and the statewide hub at oregontaxforeclosure.com links to each one. It calls itself the only authorized website for the case.
Where do claims go?
Mail goes to Oregon Tax Foreclosure Settlement, c/o Kroll Settlement Administration, PO Box 225391, New York, NY 10150-5391. The Baker and Marion sites list a claims phone line at (833) 930-0987, and the hub page lists 833-644-1593 for general questions.
The sites do not state a per-person payment. They say the settlement offers payments of surplus proceeds to class members with eligible claims, and the pool of $4,919,409.99 is not broken out by county in the published figures. What each claimant receives depends on the surplus from their own property and on how many claims come in.
What about the other Oregon counties?
Four separate settlements cover seven Oregon counties, according to OpenClassActions. Washington County has $1,500,000 with the same November 30 deadline, and Yamhill County has $179,470.18, also due November 30. Their claims run through their own sites: the hub links to a Washington County site and a Yamhill County site.
Lane County is on a different clock. Its settlement of $1,348,311.60 opened for claims in October 2026, with a claim deadline of February 22, 2027 and a final approval hearing on December 2, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. A former owner who is not sure which county sold the land should look at the county site first, because the dates and eligibility periods differ from one county to the next.
For the four counties in this pool, the open question is how much each claim is worth. The published sources give the pool and the deadline but not the split, and the number can still rise before November 30.
Owned land in Baker, Columbia, Jackson or Marion County?
A former owner who loses track of which county’s window applies, or whose heirs file after the postmark date, can leave a claim on the table. Each of the four counties has its own eligibility period, and the November 30 deadline is the same for all of them.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes a step-by-step filing walkthrough and a claim log and payment tracker that holds one line per county, per property and per family member who files. It also carries the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice, which keeps the fairness hearing apart from the claim deadline.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
