diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
index 5f2921203ff..1aa555be4fe 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import ToolPoliciesView from "@/components/ToolPoliciesView";
 import SpendLogsTable from "@/components/view_logs";
 import ViewUserDashboard from "@/components/view_users";
 import { ThemeProvider } from "@/contexts/ThemeContext";
+import { getCookie } from "@/utils/cookieUtils";
 import { isJwtExpired } from "@/utils/jwtUtils";
 import { buildLoginUrlWithReturn, consumeReturnUrl, normalizeUrlForCompare, storeReturnUrl } from "@/utils/returnUrlUtils";
 import { formatUserRole, isAdminRole } from "@/utils/roles";
@@ -52,21 +53,14 @@ import { useSearchParams } from "next/navigation";
 import { Suspense, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { ConfigProvider, theme } from "antd";
 
-function getCookie(name: string) {
-  // Safer cookie read + decoding; handles '=' inside values
-  const match = document.cookie.split("; ").find((row) => row.startsWith(name + "="));
-  if (!match) return null;
-  const value = match.slice(name.length + 1);
-  try {
-    return decodeURIComponent(value);
-  } catch {
-    return value;
-  }
-}
-
 function deleteCookie(name: string, path = "/") {
   // Best-effort client-side clear (works for non-HttpOnly cookies without Domain)
   document.cookie = `${name}=; Max-Age=0; Path=${path}`;
+  try {
+    sessionStorage.removeItem(name);
+  } catch {
+    // sessionStorage may be unavailable
+  }
 }
 
 interface ProxySettings {
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/user_dashboard.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/user_dashboard.tsx
index dc8d2d9cdd7..79b1a7ca6e5 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/user_dashboard.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/user_dashboard.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 "use client";
-import { clearTokenCookies } from "@/utils/cookieUtils";
+import { clearTokenCookies, getCookie } from "@/utils/cookieUtils";
 import { Col, Grid } from "@tremor/react";
 import { Typography } from "antd";
 import { jwtDecode } from "jwt-decode";
@@ -35,11 +35,7 @@ export type UserInfo = {
   spend: number;
 };
 
-function getCookie(name: string) {
-  console.log("COOKIES", document.cookie);
-  const cookieValue = document.cookie.split("; ").find((row) => row.startsWith(name + "="));
-  return cookieValue ? cookieValue.split("=")[1] : null;
-}
+
 
 interface UserDashboardProps {
   userID: string | null;
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.test.ts
index eedf4949242..d7418db3178 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.test.ts
@@ -188,5 +188,10 @@ describe("cookieUtils", () => {
       sessionStorage.setItem("token", "session-value");
       expect(getCookie("token")).toBe("cookie-value");
     });
+
+    it("should not fall back to sessionStorage for non-token keys", () => {
+      sessionStorage.setItem("other", "other-value");
+      expect(getCookie("other")).toBeNull();
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.ts
index 229a49a6a03..4282d645c0e 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/cookieUtils.ts
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ export function getCookie(name: string) {
   }
   // Fallback to sessionStorage — covers the case where a reverse proxy
   // added HttpOnly to the server-set cookie, making it invisible to JS.
-  if (typeof window !== "undefined") {
+  if (name === "token" && typeof window !== "undefined") {
     try {
       return sessionStorage.getItem(name);
     } catch {