Kelly Benefits Data Breach Settlement

People whose information was compromised in the December 2024 Kelly Benefits data breach may claim. This settlement resolves In re: Kelly Benefits Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 1:25-cv-01304-SAG, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, over an intrusion the court-authorized Notice dates to December 12–17, 2024, in which files containing names, Social Security numbers, tax ID numbers, dates of birth, medical and health insurance information and financial account information were copied. Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc. d/b/a Kelly Benefits will pay $5,000,000 into a Settlement Fund. Five things are worth getting straight before you file. First, all four benefits stack — this one is cumulative, not an either-or choice. Most data breach settlements make you pick between a flat payment and documented losses. This one does not: the Notice describes the pro rata cash payment, the credit monitoring and the California payment as each available "in addition to" the others, so claim everything that applies to you on the same form. Second, the $5,000 cap covers one benefit only. "Up to $5,000" is the ceiling on Documented Monetary Losses per person — not a cap on the settlement, and not a cap on the cash payment, the credit monitoring or the California payment, which sit outside it. Third, the "$50" is an estimate that is paid last and could be nothing. The Notice sets a payment order out of the net fund — credit monitoring, then documented losses, then California payments, then the pro rata cash — and states that if the first three exhaust the fund, "no Pro Rata Cash Payments will be distributed." Fourth, the $100 is California-only. The California Statutory Payment requires that you had a California address on December 12, 2024. Most of the class does not get it. Fifth, most class members never dealt with Kelly Benefits. It administers benefits for employers and insurance carriers, so the class is largely other companies' employees and plan members, identified from Kelly Benefits' own records. Claims close December 28, 2026, and the separate deadline to opt out or object is a month earlier, November 27, 2026.

Do I Qualify?

You may be eligible if:

• Your Private Information was compromised in the Kelly Benefits data breach between December 12 and December 17, 2024, and you reside in the United States. That is the entire class definition in the court-authorized Notice
• You were identified from Kelly Benefits' records. The Notice describes Kelly Benefits reviewing the affected files and matching individuals to the appropriate client or carrier, an analysis completed March 3, 2025, with notices following from April 2025. If you were never notified about this specific breach you are very unlikely to be in the class; if you were notified but lost the notice, call Kroll at (833) 453-3640
• You do NOT need to have been a Kelly Benefits customer, or to have ever heard of the company. This is the most common misconception about this case. Kelly & Associates Insurance Group administers benefits and insurance for employers and insurance carriers, so most class members are employees or plan members of its clients. Your employer is not the test — whether your data was in the breached files is
• It has to be THIS company and THIS breach. The Defendant is Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc. d/b/a Kelly Benefits, the Maryland benefits administrator — not Kelly Services, Inc. the staffing company, and not any other business using the Kelly name. The covered intrusion ran December 12–17, 2024
• Any US state qualifies for three of the four benefits. The estimated $50 pro rata cash payment, up to $5,000 in Documented Monetary Losses and three years of credit monitoring have no state condition
• California address on December 12, 2024 — required for the fourth benefit only. The California Statutory Payment, estimated at $100, is limited to class members who had a California address on that date. If you did not, you are still fully eligible for everything else
• You are NOT excluded. Excluded are Kelly Benefits, any entity in which it has a controlling interest, and its officers, directors, legal representatives, successors, subsidiaries and assigns; any judge, justice or judicial officer presiding over the matter, their immediate families and judicial staff; and anyone who timely and validly requests exclusion
• You file by December 28, 2026. The Notice is explicit that submitting a valid, timely Claim Form is the only way to receive benefits, and that class members who do nothing get nothing and are still bound by the Releases

There are two separate questions here, and they work differently. Getting into the claim form. The court-authorized Notice tells class members to file online at www.KellyBenefitsSettlement.com or by mail, and does not itself state that an ID is required. Secondary coverage of this settlement reports that the live online portal opens with a login page asking for the Class Member ID printed on the notice, that the paper Claim Form asks for that ID "if known," and that the mailed postcard carries a tear-off form with the ID pre-printed. This site could not load the claim portal directly to confirm that, so treat the ID as something to have in hand rather than a confirmed hard gate. Either way, the practical advice is the same: find your notice before you start, and if it is gone, contact Kroll Settlement Administration at (833) 453-3640 or through the official website well before December 28, 2026. Documenting the benefit you claim. This splits cleanly. The Notice states that the Pro Rata Cash Payment requires no documentation at all, and credit monitoring and the California Statutory Payment are likewise described without any records requirement — the California payment turns on having had a California address on December 12, 2024. Only the up-to-$5,000 Documented Monetary Losses benefit needs records. Because the benefits stack, there is no reason to skip the cash payment regardless of what your paperwork looks like. What counts as documentation for a loss claim. The Notice requires you to attest under penalty of perjury that the losses were incurred as a result of the Data Breach, and to submit Reasonable Documentation, which it says includes credit card statements, bank statements, invoices, telephone records, screen shots and receipts. It is explicit that Documented Monetary Losses "cannot be documented solely by a personal certification, declaration, or affidavit." Claimable categories include out-of-pocket credit monitoring costs incurred on or after December 12, 2024 through December 28, 2026, unreimbursed losses from actual fraud or identity theft, and unreimbursed bank fees, long-distance phone charges, postage or local mileage at the prevailing IRS business-use rate. You cannot be reimbursed for anything already covered from another source, including compensation tied to credit monitoring or identity theft protection Kelly Benefits previously offered.

What Happened?

Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc., which does business as Kelly Benefits, is a Maryland benefits administration and insurance firm serving employers and insurance carriers. In that role it held personal information belonging to those clients' current and former employees and to plan members, which is why most people in this class never dealt with Kelly Benefits directly.

According to the court-authorized Notice, on or about December 12, 2024 Kelly Benefits learned of suspicious activity in its environment and investigated, determining that there was unauthorized access from December 12, 2024 to December 17, 2024 and that certain files were copied and taken.

The Notice states that the compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, tax ID numbers, dates of birth, medical information, health insurance information, financial account information and other sensitive, identifying information, which it collectively calls "Private Information."

Kelly Benefits then completed a file review and matched affected individuals to the appropriate client or carrier. The Notice says that analysis was completed on March 3, 2025. Notification of affected individuals followed, and the reported count rose with later updates — secondary reporting puts it above 400,000 people, a figure that does not appear in the Notice itself.

Eight plaintiffs — Dhymonique Alexander, Jasmine Anderson, Jacob Dohrman, Jaesyn Evans, Chasten Law, Anne O'Brien, Brittany Parks and Kimberly Rose — brought claims for negligence and negligence per se, breach of third-party beneficiary contract and unjust enrichment, among others, consolidated as In re: Kelly Benefits Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 1:25-cv-01304-SAG, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland before Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher.

Kelly Benefits denies all allegations and any wrongdoing. The Notice states that the Court has not decided in favor of either side and that the parties settled to avoid the costs and risks of trial. Under the proposed Settlement, Kelly Benefits will pay $5,000,000 into a Settlement Fund. The Court must still decide whether to approve the Settlement at the January 12, 2027 Final Fairness Hearing.

How to File Your Claim

1. FILE AT KELLYBENEFITSSETTLEMENT.COM — the official settlement website, administered by Kroll Settlement Administration LLC. The court-authorized Notice directs class members to submit the Claim Form online at www.KellyBenefitsSettlement.com or by mail
2. CLAIM EVERY BENEFIT THAT APPLIES TO YOU ON THE SAME FORM — THEY STACK. This settlement is not an either-or election. The Notice says class members may submit a claim to receive the Documented Monetary Losses payment, the Pro Rata Cash Payment, Credit Monitoring and (if eligible) the California Statutory Payment, and describes each of the latter three as available "in addition to" the others. Requesting the cash payment costs you nothing even if you also itemize losses
3. HAVE YOUR NOTICE IN FRONT OF YOU. Secondary coverage of this settlement reports that the online claim portal opens with a login page asking for the Class Member ID printed on the notice, and that the mailed postcard includes a tear-off form with the ID already printed on it. The court-authorized Notice itself does not state an ID requirement, and this site could not independently load the claim portal to confirm it, so treat the ID as something to have ready rather than a verified hard gate. Either way, if your notice is gone, call Kroll at (833) 453-3640 first — do that weeks ahead of the deadline, not in the final days
4. MAIL ADDRESS FOR PAPER CLAIMS: In re: Kelly Benefits Data Breach Litigation, c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, P.O. Box 5324, New York, NY 10150-5324
5. THE CLAIM DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 28, 2026. The Notice requires online Claim Forms to be submitted by that date and mailed Claim Forms to be postmarked by that date. Some secondary coverage reports a December 31, 2026 postmark date on the settlement website
6. a paper form postmarked by December 28 satisfies both, so use December 28
7. WATCH THE EARLIER DEADLINE — NOVEMBER 27, 2026. Opting out and objecting both close a full month before claims do, and both must be mailed and postmarked by that date. Group or "class" opt outs are not permitted
8. FOR A DOCUMENTED-LOSS CLAIM, ATTACH RECORDS. The Notice requires an attestation under penalty of perjury plus Reasonable Documentation — credit card statements, bank statements, invoices, telephone records, screen shots or receipts. A personal certification, declaration or affidavit alone is expressly not enough
9. DOING NOTHING GETS YOU NOTHING AND STILL RELEASES YOUR CLAIMS. The Notice is explicit: class members who do not file receive no benefits and are still bound by the Releases.
10. Visit the official claim form: https://www.kellybenefitssettlement.com/

How Much Will I Actually Get?

ALL FOUR BENEFITS STACK — THIS IS A CUMULATIVE SETTLEMENT, NOT AN EITHER-OR ELECTION. Get this right, because it is the reverse of how most data breach settlements work. The court-authorized Notice lists the benefits a class member "may submit a claim to receive" and then introduces the Pro Rata Cash Payment as available "in addition to a cash payment for Documented Monetary Losses," Credit Monitoring as available "in addition to a cash payment for Documented Monetary Losses and Pro Rata Cash Payment," and the California Statutory Payment as available "in addition to the benefits described above." Nothing makes the flat cash available only in lieu of documented losses. A class member with $400 in documented losses can claim that $400, the estimated $50 cash payment and three years of credit monitoring, and if they had a California address on December 12, 2024, the estimated $100 California payment on top. THE $5,000 CAP APPLIES TO ONE BENEFIT ONLY, NOT TO THE SETTLEMENT. "Up to $5,000" is the ceiling on Documented Monetary Losses per class member. It is not a cap on what you can receive overall, and it is not a cap on the cash payment, the credit monitoring or the California payment, which sit outside it. Likewise the $1,000,000 figure attached to credit monitoring is identity theft insurance coverage, not money anyone is paid. THE "$50" IS AN ESTIMATE, IT IS PAID LAST, AND IT COULD BE NOTHING. The Pro Rata Cash Payment is a residual share, not a set figure. The Notice sets an explicit payment order out of the Net Settlement Fund: Credit Monitoring first, then Documented Monetary Losses, then California Statutory Payments, and only then Pro Rata Cash Payments, calculated by dividing whatever is left by the number of valid claims for that benefit. The Notice then says plainly that if valid claims for the first three benefits exceed the Net Settlement Fund, those benefits are reduced pro rata and "no Pro Rata Cash Payments will be distributed." More claimants means less per person, and in the worst case the $50 is $0. The California payment is also subject to pro rata reduction. WHAT COMES OUT BEFORE ANY CLASS MEMBER IS PAID. The fund is $5,000,000. Class Counsel will ask the Court to approve attorneys' fees of up to one-third of the fund ($1,666,666) plus out-of-pocket litigation costs and expenses, a $2,500 Service Award for each of the eight Class Representatives, and Claims Administration Expenses. All of that is deducted first, subject to Court approval. WHEN. Nothing is paid until the Settlement is finally approved and any appeals are resolved. The Final Fairness Hearing is set for January 12, 2027 at 10:00 a.m. ET in Baltimore, and the Notice warns the date and time may change without further notice.

Last reviewed: October 7, 2026 | Information verified from court records and official settlement documents.

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