In a settlement reached in the so-called "Hungarian Gold Train" case, the US government is to pay up to US$ 25.5 million, of which US$ 21 million will be used to fund social service projects for Jewish Shoah survivors who brought a class-action suit against the US government. The Gold Train consisted of approximately 24 freight cars that contained personal property stolen or otherwise taken from Hungarian Jews during World War II by the Nazis and the Hungarian regime. The train came into the custody of the US military in Austria at the end of the war. The lawsuit alleges that the US mishandled the contents of the train. As part of the preliminary settlement now approved by a district judge, a proposed plan of allocation will be developed by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, in consultation with lawyers involved in the class action, appropriate social service agencies and class members, and submitted to the court for its approval. If the settlement is approved, Hungarian Jewish victims of Nazism may be able to receive assistance from Jewish social service agencies.