FTC Sends More Than $2.7 Million to Consumers Harmed by Handy Technologies
The FTC is distributing more than $2.7 million to consumers harmed by Handy Technologies, now operating as Angi Services, following a January 2025 enforcement action brought jointly with the New York Attorney General. The company allegedly advertised earnings that most workers never saw and buried fees and fines that quietly reduced their pay.
Why this matters: Gig platforms have a simple way to mislead workers: advertise the best possible earnings and hide the costs in the fine print. Most workers never hit the advertised numbers, and the fees eating into their pay were not clearly disclosed. This payout is real money going back to real people, but the broader issue is that these platforms set the terms, control the information, and workers have almost no leverage to push back. Enforcement like this is one of the few checks that exist.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance
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