Claims in the Kimco Staffing Services data-breach settlement have to be filed online or mailed on a paper form postmarked no later than Tuesday, December 15, 2026. The administrator counts 69,687 people as affected, and the deal is valued at $1,040,000. Only $640,000 of that is cash, and no one has been told what a single payment will be.
Kroll Settlement Administration runs the court-authorized settlement website for the Kimco Data Incident Litigation. The class is made up of U.S. residents whom Kimco or the defendant identified as among the 69,687 individuals impacted, including everyone who was sent notice. The defendant, its affiliates, court personnel and anyone who opts out are excluded.
The administrator’s frequently asked questions page carries the same dates schedule as the home page, and its answers cover how to file, when payment follows approval and what to do if a class member moves. Being on the notice list does not by itself produce a benefit. The credit monitoring and the identity theft insurance go to class members who submit a valid claim for any benefit, and the reimbursement, California and cash payments are claimed the same way. That makes the December 15 date the one that decides who collects anything.
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The $1.04 million is two pots, and only $640,000 is cash
Some settlement trackers headline $1.04 million. Others say $640,000. Both are right, because they describe two parts of one number. The administrator lists Total Settlement Benefits of $1,040,000.00, made up of a $640,000.00 non-reversionary common fund and $400,000.00 in business practice enhancements.
The cash is the $640,000. Non-reversionary means money left in the fund is not returned to the company. The $400,000 is spending on changes to how Kimco handles data, and none of it is paid to class members.
Everything paid to people comes out of the $640,000 fund. The administrator says the final cash payment is whatever remains after attorneys’ fees, the service award, administration costs, the cost of the credit monitoring, the out-of-pocket claims and the California payments.
The scale shows why no figure is promised. Divided across all 69,687 people, the $640,000 fund comes to about $9.18 each before a single deduction. Fees, the service award, administration and two years of monitoring come out first, so a pro rata check would be smaller than that if everyone claimed.
Four benefits, and the size of only one is fixed
The first benefit is credit monitoring and identity protection, plus $1,000,000 in identity theft insurance, for two years. Any class member who files a valid claim for any benefit gets it. A person who wants only the monitoring still has to file, and the Federal Trade Commission’s guidance on credit freezes and fraud alerts describes the free step that sits alongside it.
The second is reimbursement of documented out-of-pocket losses, up to $5,000. That figure is a ceiling on proven costs, not a payment. A class member who can document $300 in losses is looking at $300, and one with no losses gets nothing from this category.
The third is a flat $50 payment under the California Consumer Privacy Act. It goes only to people who lived in California on June 24, 2023. Class members in other states are not eligible for it.
The fourth is a pro rata cash payment. Because it is whatever is left in the $640,000 fund after every other deduction, the administrator states no dollar amount for it. The more people claim the other benefits, the less is left to share.
December 15 by screen or by postmark, with December 16 also on the page
The administrator’s schedule of important dates says a claim must be submitted online no later than Tuesday, December 15, 2026, or mailed on a paper Claim Form postmarked no later than Tuesday, December 15, 2026. Either route works, and the date is the same. A form dropped in the mail on December 16 is late under that schedule.
The same page carries a second date. A paragraph higher up gives December 16, 2026 as the mailing date. The dates schedule is the specific statement of the deadline, so December 15 is the safe day for both routes, and a postmark any later is a gamble the schedule does not support.
Mail goes to Kimco Data Incident Litigation, P.O. Box 225391, New York, NY 10150-5391. Questions can go to Kroll at (833) 876-1553 or info@KimcoDataSettlement.com.
Residence matters in one place only. The $50 California payment turns on living in California on June 24, 2023, not on living there now. A class member who has since moved away still qualifies if that was the address on that date, and one who moved in later does not.
The opt-out date comes first, and payments come last
Staying in the class and filing a claim is one path. Opting out or objecting is the other, and both deadlines fall on Monday, November 16, 2026, a month before the claim date. A person who opts out is excluded from the class and from the benefits.
The court holds the final approval hearing on Thursday, February 18, 2027, at 2:00 p.m. PT. Payments are made only if the court approves the settlement, and only after any appeals are resolved. Claims are due months before that hearing, so a person files without knowing the final outcome.
No payment date is posted. A class member who files in November or December should expect a wait that runs past the February hearing and possibly well beyond it.
Which Kimco claim will be ready before December 15?
The Kimco schedule has two filing routes, a mailing date that appears as December 15 in one place and December 16 in another, and an opt-out date a month earlier. A claim that misses the postmark loses the monitoring, the insurance and any share of the $640,000.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice and a step-by-step filing walkthrough, plus a claim log and payment tracker for a case that pays out after a February hearing. The Kimco dates are the kind its rule is built to sort out.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
