RushCard to pay $19 million to users for last year's outage

According to the agreement filed in a New York court as part of a class-action lawsuit, RushCard will pay at least $100 to each user who could not access their funds.

Without access to their money stored on their RushCards, some customers told The Associated Press at the time they could not buy food for their children, pay bills, or pay for gas to get to their jobs.

The issue became so large that it caught the attention of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal watchdog agency for the financial industry, which started an investigation into the company.