Uber Settles DOJ Lawsuit Over Wait Fees for Disabled Passengers
- Uber will credit over 65,000 eligible riders for extra fees
- Uber will also pay more than $2 million to affected passengers
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Uber Technologies Inc. will pay millions of dollars to settle claims by the US Department of Justice that the ride-hailing giant discriminates against disabled passengers who need additional time to get into a car.
Uber will compensate more than 65,000 passengers who were levied a “wait-time” fee for taking too long to board a vehicle, the DOJ said in a statement. Accounts of eligible riders who signed up for the waiver program will be credited double the amount of wait time fees they were charged, which could amount to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in compensation, the DOJ estimates.