Week of Dec. 9, 2025





Minnesota Department of Human Services





Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates



*Week of Dec. 9, 2025*






This weekly digest is a method to communicate updates, initiatives and policy changes from the Aging and Adult Services Division (AASD) and Disability Services Division (DSD) in a simplified way. We send this announcement every week on Tuesdays.

In this edition





Joint AASD/DSD messages

* Some online forms will be offline during software upgrade Dec. 11, 2025 [ #Forms ]
* Resources for cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) and enhanced budget increases to consumer directed community supports (CDCS) and Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) budgets [ #COLA ]
* New program integrity website [ #integrity ]
* Recent Community-Based Services Manual (CBSM) updates [ #CBSM ]

 

Other messages

* Temporary 245D licensing moratorium [ #other ]





Joint AASD/DSD messages

Some forms will be offline during software upgrade Dec. 11, 2025 [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agency staff, service providers and other interested parties
* *Effective date:* 6 to 8 p.m., Dec. 11, 2025
* *Summary:* Select online forms will be offline during a software upgrade from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025.

 

Resources for COLA and enhanced budget increases to CDCS and CFSS budgets [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agency case managers who work with people using CDCS and CFSS
* *Summary:* DHS prepared resources to help lead agencies apply COLA and enhanced budget increases to CDCS and CFSS budgets.

 

New program integrity website [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agencies, partners, providers, people who receive services and other interested parties
* *Summary:* DHS created a new website for lead agencies, partners and providers to use to monitor our ongoing response to fraud, waste and abuse of Medicaid programs.

 

Recent CBSM updates [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agencies and all interested parties
* *Summary:* This announcement provides a summary of the updates DHS made to the CBSM in November 2025.





Other messages

Occasionally, AASD/DSD shares messages from other areas of DHS. We are sharing the following announcement from the past week:


* Dec. 2, 2025: Temporary 245D licensing moratorium (forwarded message from DHS Office of Inspector General) [ [link removed] ]





AASD ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ]

Visit CBSM – What’s new [ [link removed] ] often for a list of policies/pages we’ve recently updated in the Community-Based Services Manual [ [link removed] ].








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