CHICAGO (CBS) --CBS 2 has been trying for months to get the Illinois Department of Employment Security to answer your questions about fraud, overpayments and the chronically slow callback system. Finally Wednesday there were a few answers, but also a lot more sidestepping, as senators grilled...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- A large number of people in Illinois are coming up on the end of their unemployment benefits. One of those people is a Chicago woman who reached out to us after she said she got some bad information about her claim.Illinois Department of Employment Securityrepresentatives trie...
UPL: nonlawyers may represent employers before the IDES, appellate court holds: the Illinois Appellate Court held that nonlawyers who represent employers before the Illinois Department of Employment Security in unemployment benefits hearings aren't engaging in the unauthorized practice of law....
IDES spokeswoman Rebecca Cisco said in a statement that this is still a new process for them and it has just started. She included a document from the U.S. Department of Labor that spells out the rules for issuing overpayment waivers: "First and foremost, the overpayment language contained i...
CHICAGO (CBS) --Last year the State of Illinoismailed him the social security numbers of over a dozen strangers. This year, Joe Urbauer may be the canary in the coal mine for a new scam. The Illinois Department of Employment Security is investigating ...