April 2026

April 9, 2026

Sponsors of Homes

• The non-discrimination statement ("This institution is an equal opportunity provider.") has been added to the footer of several sponsor-side menu reports — including the Provider Planned Menu, Master Menu List, Provider My Menus, Cycle Menu, and Provider Menu Comments — ensuring these reports now meet CACFP regulatory requirements consistently across both printed and digital versions.

• The Louisiana Family Day Care Home Food Program (FDCHFP-201A) Compliance Monitoring General Review Checklist has been updated to reflect the latest revision (Rev 09/25), including corrected wording and capitalization changes requested by the state.
  
  

• Fixed an issue where children whose enrollment expired on the current date were not appearing under either the "Expired" or "Expiring Soon" filters, creating a one-day window where those children were invisible to both statuses. Children expiring today will now correctly display as "Expired" with a red indicator.
• Fixed an issue where the Sponsor Review Worksheet printed from Observer Mode was missing children with pending or expired enrollment statuses, even when the sponsor's settings were configured to include them. The report now correctly displays the same children as when printed through the standard Reports menu.
• Fixed an issue where the "Child is Income Eligible for Tier 1" checkbox was being incorrectly auto-checked for all children enrolled in a Tier 1 provider home. This checkbox is now only auto-checked for a provider's own children when the provider qualifies for Tier 1 by income.
• Check printing has been fixed so that checks now print at full size on standard 8.5 x 11 paper instead of being shrunk, and provider names and addresses now align correctly so that window envelopes can be used for mailing without printing separate labels.
• Fixed an issue where certain sponsor users could only see a small number of claims on the List Claims page instead of the full list. The page now correctly defaults to showing all claims.
• Fixed an issue where family daycare home providers with a mixed-age license were not receiving capacity errors during claim processing, even when the total number of children claimed exceeded the provider's overall maximum capacity.
• Fixed an issue where sponsors using the List Claims page in KidKare could only see a small fraction of their providers' claims. The page now defaults to showing all claims across all submission batches, matching the behavior users expected.

Sponsors of Centers

• Sponsor administrators can now enable a new Policy D.33 that causes Child Rosters and Claims Rosters to display enrollment and eligibility information as it existed at the time a claim was processed, rather than always showing the most current data on file.

• Fixed an issue where some expired Enrollment Forms (EFs) and Income Eligibility Forms (IEFs) were not appearing on the Send Invitations screen, even when filters were set correctly, causing staff to potentially overlook forms that needed to be collected.
• Fixed two issues affecting Open Enrolled (At-Risk/SFSP) centers: the Milk "Actual Quantity Required" field on the Center Daily Menu now calculates correctly, and the "Qty Needed Per Actual" column on the Menu Production Record now shows accurate values when sponsors print the report for these centers.
• Fixed an issue where completed (Renewed) eForms were not appearing in the eForms Reporting section, and the "unfinished job" warning notice was not displaying automatically when report processing was pending.
• Fixed a sorting issue on the eForms Approve & Renew page where, after approving one form (such as the Income Eligibility Form), the remaining form did not move to its correct position when sorting by FRP Basis. Forms now consistently sort in the expected order.
• Fixed an issue where sponsors could not successfully save an Adjust Claim Count for a center after removing a meal type (such as Breakfast) from the center's approved meals. Sponsors can now save claim count adjustments without encountering an incorrect validation error.
• Fixed an issue where parent-submitted eForms were not appearing in the Approve & Renew section for sponsors to review and activate children. Also corrected a data issue that caused eForm records to be lost when a center canceled an invitation after a parent had already submitted the form.
• Fixed an issue where sponsor users were unable to successfully renew children's eForms using the Approve and Renew feature. Renewals now complete successfully.

Sponsored Centers

• The Income Eligibility Form (IEF) for Texas Child Care Centers has been updated to the March 2026 version in both English and Spanish, replacing the previous July 2022 version.

• Fixed an issue where the Auto Save Actual Qty confirmation pop-up could not be closed after saving attendance when both the "Require Certification" and "Calculate Actual Quantities Served Automatically" settings were enabled at the same time. The quantity calculation now runs silently in the background after certification with no pop-up, and when removing attendance, the confirmation pop-up appears and can be properly closed or dismissed.

Homes - Parachute

• Fixed an issue where inactive guardians were incorrectly appearing in the Food Program's Manage Guardians tab. Only active guardians are now displayed.