You may also ask for your child to be excluded from the class. If your child is excluded from the class, they will not receive any potentially past-due benefits from this Lawsuit and will not be bound by any orders or judgments of the Court. Your child will retain any rights they may have to separately sue SSA for such benefits or to challenge a determination of benefits through SSA’s administrative process. To be excluded from the class, you must send a letter or postcard which states in words or substance: “I and my child(ren) want to be excluded from the class in LNP v. Bisignano, Case No. 1:24-cv-01196 (E.D. Va.).”  You must also provide your full name, the name of your child(ren), your mailing address, telephone number, and email address.  Any request for exclusion must be postmarked by December 1, 2025 and should be mailed to Class Counsel at the address below.

As permitted by federal law, Class Counsel intends to seek a reasonable fee up to 25% of any past-due benefits paid to class members, with such fee to be paid out of such past-due benefits. The Court will decide what percentage, if any, to award Class Counsel.  Class members will not have to pay anything to Class Counsel if they do not obtain a recovery of past-due benefits from SSA.  Class members will have the right to submit written comments or objections to the Court regarding the fee application and to appear at any hearing.  The deadline for submitting objections and the date, time, and location of any fees hearing will be posted on the Fees Hearing page shortly after the information becomes available. 

No. If you received a notice in the mail regarding your children, that means that they are already members of the class and there is nothing more you need to do at this time for them to remain in the class.  You do not need to email, call, submit a claim, or send us any additional information.  You can simply do nothing.  If the lawsuit succeeds, the Social Security Administration will recalculate your child’s benefits, pay any past-due amounts, and should pay the proper amount going forward.  There is no guarantee that the lawsuit will succeed or that your child will receive any additional benefits.

No—you and your children are not being sued. If you received our class action notice, that means that your children are in the class of plaintiffs in this lawsuit against the Social Security Administration.

Your information was provided to us by the Social Security Administration pursuant to a court order in this case so that we could send you a notification about the lawsuit. You do not need to send us any additional information. 

This case is about the way the Social Security Administration ("SSA") calculates benefits for the children of early retirees. The court has ordered that the method used by the SSA is incorrect. Currently, we are working to have the court issue a final order that will direct the SSA to recalculate those benefits, and if there is a shortfall, to repay the past-due benefits to the class members. Additionally, we are seeking to have the court compel the SSA to calculate those benefits using the correct formula moving forward. There is no guarantee of success and the SSA has indicated that they will likely appeal the final judgment. 

No. If you received the notice, your children are already part of the class and there is nothing else you need to do. You can follow along with updates and developments in the case using this website. 

If you have any questions about this lawsuit, and have already reviewed the information on this website, email LNPclassaction@kelleydrye.com, call +1 (202) 719-6045, or write to: 

LNP Class Action
Attn: Ira T. Kasdan & Damon W. Suden
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
3 World Trade Center
175 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10007

No. This is unlikely to be related to any other dealings you have with the SSA. The case is strictly limited to the calculation of child’s insurance benefits of early retirees.  If you have other issues with SSA, you should continue dealing with those on your own as normal.  We do not represent you regarding any other disputes you have with SSA and we cannot help you with other issues related to your benefits. 

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and the Plaintiffs in this case are not affiliated with the SSA. In fact, we are the ones suing the SSA because they did not calculate your child’s benefits correctly and may owe you past-due benefits.  If you have questions that are not answered on this website, you can email us at LNPclassaction@kelleydrye.com, or call +1 (202) 719-6045. Do not come to our firm's offices unannounced, as we will not be able to see you unless we have specifically arranged for an in-person meeting with you. 

Unfortunately, we cannot. If you are a class member, we are your attorneys for the purposes of this case only. We cannot assist with any other lawsuits or disputes you might have, including unrelated issues with the SSA.  Please do not send us any information about your other lawsuits or disputes—we are not your attorneys for purposes of those unrelated issues. 

Separate notices have been sent out for each of the children on the class action list to the representative payee as reflected in the SSA’s records. It’s possible the notice to your other child(ren) got lost in the mail or is delayed in arriving.  It’s also possible that your child is not eligible to be in the class because of their age and the class parameters (which is listed on the Class Notice).  

It’s also possible that you are not the representative payee for that other the child—the notice would have been sent to the child’s representative payee on file with the SSA. If you have examined the Class Notice and its parameters carefully and you still believe your child was incorrectly excluded, please keep an eye out for any notice that may be running late. If nothing shows up, please contact us via phone or email and someone will respond as soon as possible. 

No. Never provide any Social Security Number to us. We neither want or need it.