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August 2026

August 14, 2026

Sponsors of Homes

updated

  • Introducing Geolocation Enforcement for Home Reviews! Sponsors of Homes can now enforce geolocation tracking for Monitoring visits conducted through the KidKare online review tool. Geofencing Enforcement checks a monitor's device location against the provider's Current Physical Address the moment an online home review is opened. When the two don't match, the monitor documents why before continuing.

    Every discrepancy, reason cited, and comment logs to the Review Location Discrepancy Report, accessed directly from the Reports page in KidKare. This check is repeated when in-progress reviews are re-opened later.

    For more information, including how to set this functionality up, head on over to Geofencing Enforcement for Home Reviews.

  • For home sponsors operating in the state of Texas, the Texas H1607 and H1607-P monitoring forms are now available in KidKare. Access these reports by heading to Reports and choosing the Reviews category.

August 13, 2026

All Sponsors— Beacon Verify

updated

  • New permissions filed under Beacon Verify for both homes and centers allow sponsor admins to grant or deny access to the Portfolio and Executive dashboards per user or role. Users granted access to Beacon Verify may also be limited to their assigned caseload only.

    ➡️ Homes Sponsors: Beacon Verify Claims Command Center

    ➡️ Centers Sponsors: Beacon Verify Claims Command Center

  • Caseload filtering now allows users to quickly view the sites to which they are assigned.
  • We have added filtering for users who may see all centers that allows them to filter the sites viewed by an assigned Monitor or Claims Processor.

    Sponsors of Centers

    updated

    • The Florida Income Eligibility Form (IEF) has been updated to the state's revised 7/2026 version in both English and Spanish, so you'll now see the current form when printing or sharing household income applications.
    • When you evaluate and save an income eligibility application for a child, the updated IEF expiration and enrollment expiration dates now carry over to that child's siblings as well, so every sibling record shows the correct current dates instead of the old ones.
    • For Texas center sponsors, the electronic Income Eligibility Form now lets families who select SNAP, TANF, or FDPIR list all enrolled children and household members instead of jumping straight to the signature page. It also asks for the EDG# (validated as 8 or 9 digits per HHSC) instead of a generic case number, and no longer auto-checks the "I do not have a Social Security number" box on the printed form. Texas sponsors using the standard form and all non-Texas sponsors are unaffected.
    • For Hybrid ARAS Programs, walk-in children now stay on your Attendance & Meal Counts roster from day to day, making it easy to find repeat walk-ins who come back occasionally without being fully enrolled. Walk-ins with no recorded attendance for 120 days will drop off the roster automatically, and existing roster filters continue to work as they do today.

    Fixed

    • Renewed enrollment forms (IEF and Enrollment Forms) can now be opened and printed from eForms. Previously, clicking a child's renewed form took you to a blank Reports page with nothing to print.

    Sponsors of Homes

    Fixed

    • Fixed an issue on Provider Management > Provider Information > Other tab where the "Documentation on File" section would not appear unless all three of the Dinner, Saturday, and Sunday documentation policies were turned on. Each policy now independently controls its own checkbox, so you can mark Saturday or Sunday documentation on a provider's record without also enabling Dinner.
    • Fixed an issue where the Itemized Detail line on printed and PDF Direct Deposit forms showed only the Tier 1 amount for providers with both Tier 1 and Tier 2 claim amounts. The Itemized Detail now shows the combined Tier 1 + Tier 2 total, matching the Total Claim Payments amount in the Check Summary.
    • Fixed an issue where meals served too close together — such as an AM snack and lunch only 60 minutes apart — were not being flagged with an insufficient-time error during claim processing, even when the sponsor's Processor Time Checks were set to disallow. These closely spaced meals are now correctly caught and disallowed.
    • The Claimed Attendance Detail report can now be run for all providers at once. Previously it would take around 15 minutes and then fail with an error. It now finishes in a few seconds with the same results.
    • Clicking "Use Provider's Address" on a child's record no longer erases the parent's Primary and Secondary Phone numbers. It now fills in the provider's phone numbers, and if the provider has no phone number on file, the parent's existing numbers are left as-is.
    • Monitors can now see and set the "Shift(s) Observed" (First/Second) option when completing an online provider review, just like they can in Minute Menu HX and on manual reviews.
    • Fixed an issue where sponsors of homes could not renew a child's enrollment from Children > Renew Child Enrollments — clicking Renew Enrollments returned a generic error message and no enrollments in the batch were renewed.

     

    Sponsored Homes

    Fixed

    • Fixed an issue where hiding the left navigation panel in KidKare left an invisible strip along the left edge of the screen that blocked taps and clicks, preventing home providers from recording in/out times for children shown in the left column. With the panel hidden, all items in that area are now fully clickable on computers and tablets.

    August 10, 2026

    Sponsors of Centers

    Fixed

    • When downloading a scanned form from the Fix Imported Errors screen after importing attendance, you now always receive the exact form that the error row came from, with matching dates. Previously, forms scanned in the same batch could overwrite each other, so downloading a form for one week could return a different week's Attendance and Meal Count Sheet. 

    August 5, 2026

    Sponsors of Homes

    Fixed

    • We have corrected an issue impacting service access to the Minute Menu HX  desktop application. This update requires a mandatory update to Minute Menu HX. Users will be prompted to update the application upon opening it. 

      The updated HX application requires Windows 10 or later. If your computer runs an earlier version of Windows, you will not be able to use Minute Menu HX after the mandatory update. You can view the complete system requirements for Minute Menu HX here.

      For Homes sponsors who cannot meet the Windows requirements, KidKare is the recommended path forward. You can login and access the same features and functionality of HX at https://app.kidkare.com — no application updates needed.