CDCR Pregnancy Settlement Checks Went Void After October 14, 2026 — 141 Checks Worth $252,610.54 Were Still Uncashed in January, and the Court Takes Up the Leftover Money November 9

People searching “CDCR settlement payout date settlement payment date” are usually asking about one of two cases. This update is about the bigger payout of the two: the pregnancy accommodation settlement for CDCR employees, Carreon v. CDCR. Its payment date was October 14, 2025. That day the administrator “mailed settlement checks to all eligible class members at their last known addresses.” The checks carried a one-year life. The settlement site states: “Settlement checks may be cashed through October 14, 2026, which is 365 days from the date the checks were issued.” It adds: “any settlement checks that are not cashed by October 14, 2026, will become void.”

That date has now passed. Under the court-approved settlement agreement the result follows automatically, without a new court order: “At the end of that 365-day period, all payment checks not cashed will become void, and the money from those checks will return to the Settlement Fund.” We read the official site on October 15, 2026. It still states the October 14 deadline and shows no extension. It does not yet say how many checks were left uncashed when the window closed.

The last official figure comes from Judge Elihu M. Berle’s compliance hearing on February 2, 2026. The minute order records: “As of January 13, 2026, there are 141 uncashed checks, totaling $252,610.54.” By our arithmetic that averages about $1,792 per uncashed check, far above the $722 minimum. We checked again on October 15, 2026 and found no later update. The agreement also required the administrator to send reminder postcards to people with uncashed checks four weeks before the deadline. How many cashed after January is not public. For both CDCR settlements, including the data breach case, see our CDCR settlement payout date page.

There was no claim form. The site says “Every class member who did not opt out of the settlement and who had at least one identified pregnancy during the class period received a payment, with a minimum payment of $722.” The class is “all CDCR employees who had one or more pregnancies when working for CDCR between June 15, 2015 and May 31, 2020.” The final approval order puts the number of people paid at “about 1,560 Participating Class Members.”

How much should I expect from a class action settlement? For this case, payments were set by shares. Each documented pregnancy earned one share. A pregnancy with a reasonable accommodation request earned two more shares. A member who certified being deterred from asking earned one more share per pregnancy. Peace officers received two extra shares in total. The administrator has not published the dollar value of a share or an average payment. The fund started at $5.1 million. The court approved $1,579,529.63 in attorneys’ fees, $76,864.19 in costs (counsel asked for $103,470.37; $26,606.18 was disallowed), administration costs “not to exceed $124,000,” and $7,500 to each of the nine class representatives. By our arithmetic that leaves about $3,252,106.18 for the class, plus interest. That is not an official net figure. Payments are reported on IRS Form 1099, and the FAQ says the administrator “will not make any withholdings or deductions from your payment.”

The money from voided checks does not go back to CDCR, and it is not split among everyone. The site states that after “deduction of any additional administrative costs associated with reissuance and mailing, the remaining funds will be redistributed in equal, pro rata payments to eligible class members who had one or more reasonable accommodation requests previously identified in the original allocation of settlement shares.” If your original share count included an accommodation request, you are in line for this second payment. If it did not, you are not. No date or amount for the second payment has been announced.

How long does a settlement check expire? Each settlement sets its own deadline. Carreon checks were valid for 365 days. The agreement states: “All checks will be valid for three-hundred and sixty-five (365) days.” For this case, that window ran from October 14, 2025 through October 14, 2026.

If you cashed your check, the site says “There is nothing you need to do.” If you still have an uncashed Carreon check, the official terms say it is void. The site does not say whether expired checks can be reissued. If you never received a check, or you have questions about your payment, the administrator’s contacts are 888-369-6078 and info@CDCRPregnancySettlement.com. Any decision about late checks would come through the court process described below.

The genuine Carreon site is CDCRPregnancySettlement.com, run by Simpluris, Inc. Its court documents are hosted on docs.simpluris.com. Genuine contact uses the phone number and email above. The FAQ says class members “will not be charged any fees or costs” by class counsel. Any call or text offering to “release” or “reissue” a CDCR settlement payment for a fee, or asking for a bank login, is not from the administrator. Call 888-369-6078 yourself instead of answering it. The site does not say whether another payment notice will come by mail or email. Treat any message that says a redistribution amount has been set with caution until the official site posts it.

Do not confuse this case with the CDCR data breach settlement, Thomas v. CDCR. That case had a $1,800,000 fund and a claim deadline of February 14, 2025. Its status is covered on our CDCR data breach settlement page. Questions such as “Is the Yahoo data breach settlement legit?” or “Who is eligible for the Cash App settlement?” are about separate cases that have nothing to do with CDCR, and this article does not answer them. For those, use the official settlement website named in each court-approved notice, not links shared on social media.

The next dated steps come from Judge Berle’s minute order of February 2, 2026:

• By November 2, 2026: the parties must “meet and confer and file a joint status report and a declaration from the administrator” stating the “Number of uncashed checks,” the “Total amount of unclaimed funds,” and the “Proposed disposition of unclaimed funds.”
• November 9, 2026, 8:30 a.m.: a status conference in Department 6 at the Spring Street Courthouse in Los Angeles.

The sources do not give a date for the redistribution payment. The November 2 report is the next scheduled filing that must state the final number of uncashed checks and the unclaimed amount.

The first lawsuit was filed on March 25, 2019 on behalf of employees in peace-officer job classifications. A second, filed on March 13, 2020, covered non-peace-officer staff. The plaintiffs alleged that CDCR “had a policy or practice that discriminated and failed to reasonably accommodate pregnancy-related disabilities,” including under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, and that pregnant employees were denied light-duty assignments. CDCR denied all wrongdoing. According to the notice, CDCR had changed its light-duty policy by May 31, 2020.

Judge Berle granted preliminary approval on January 17, 2025 and held the final approval hearing on July 8, 2025. He signed the order and judgment on July 18, 2025. Notice went to about 1,100 known and about 27,500 potential class members. There were 21 objections and 17 opt-outs, and the court overruled the objections. The judge also cut the class representatives’ awards to $7,500 each and disallowed $26,606.18 in costs. That money stayed with the class.