Equifax Breach Settlement does not care to pay

Like many HN folks, I submitted a claim in the Equifax outrage. Now they have written me to say that they will not pay unless I already have something that I consider useless.

"According to our records, you filed a claim for alternative compensation of up to $125 in connection with the Equifax data breach settlement and certified on the claim form that you had some form of credit monitoring or protection in place and will continue to have the credit monitoring in place for a minimum of six months from the date of your claim filing.You must either verify or amend your claim by October 15, 2019.

If you do not, your claim for alternative compensation will be denied. •To verify your claim for alternative compensation, you must provide the name of your credit monitoring service that you had in place when you filed your claim. OR •You can amend your claim to request free credit monitoring instead of alternative compensation."

In short, there appears to be no consequences, whatever, for the offense in this case. Does a person have any alternative?