I recently (~2 weeks ago) got EWA to pay up. Around 500 dollars. This payment was 11 months late, but I didn't start aggressively pursuing it until 2 months ago. I'm a bit conflicted with my assessment on the EWA/Ryan Eagle debacle as it is.
On one hand, I don't think he's a scumbag at all. I think he does genuinely want to pay people out, and he's not trying to make out like a bandit with people's money.
On the other hand, I DO think EWA is going broke, and I think he is being incredibly deceitful with the whole "My accounting department is dealing with massive growth please be patient" excuse. What I think they're quite clearly doing is getting people to essentially run "free" traffic to them in order to get back afloat, and delaying payments out to people for as long as possible -although fully intending to ~*~*~sometime in the future~*~*~ pay people back-.
Problem is, this strategy most likely won't even work, and it is raping their reputation in the process. That's not to say it'll stop the super-foreign internet moniez-maker wannabes from joining their facebook group and spamming "HOW I JOIN EWA? SOME1 HAS REFEREE LIKE WEBSITE SAYS?"