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...
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...
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....
But instead of doing that, Illinois chose to send out more than 40,000 questionnaires to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claimants. "IDES is putting a paperwork mechanism in place to start the process of a claimant requesting their overpayment to be waived," LaPointe said. "That's not necessar...
Thousands have waited months to receive their Illinois unemployment benefits, but not Dale Pocius from Round Lake. "I received a notice from unemployment department saying they wanted me to update my claim," Pocius said. Here's the problem: The almost 65-year-old retiree and father of two ad...
Another email stated, "Claimant has an unemployment claim in LA (Louisiana). Deny PUA Illinois." So Rybaltowski began calling IDES. "I just keep getting this go-around," he said. He said he gets the "go-around" from dozens of employees who have actually called him back – but keep ...
"Which is impossible because my mother passed away in 2015," Joe said. "We have a copy of the death certificate from the state of Illinois.They have to have a record of her being deceased." Her life - and death - is memorialized in ink on his ...