PUA has decreased to a maximum of 50 weeks, and EB has decreased to a maximum of 13 weeks. Claimants who exhausted, ... IDES is bound to adhere to the federal law and regulations." ...

Some Illinois unemployment PUA program beneficiaries said IDES is asking them to pay back thousands of dollars in overpayment, as well as drastically reducing their weekly benefit payments without ...

New legislation may allow claimants that were "overpaid" by IDES to keep the money they are being told ... Some Illinois PUA unemployment recipients told to pay back thousands of dollars to IDES ...

Sure enough, by the fall, panicked PUA recipients with big IDES bills were reaching out to CBS 2. Now we've learned IDES is looking for money back from at least 40,000 people who received ...

IDES data for the regular unemployment trust fund and PUA program combined showed that 3,448 people who were incarcerated received 92,811 payments totaling $40.5 million, while 10,527 payments ...

Since the launch of PUA claims, on May 11, there have been more than 50,000 claims. IDES expects these claims to grow over the next few weeks.

That was a problem because PUA applicants were supposed to have first been denied traditional unemployment benefits; the siloing of the two systems meant that uFACTS didn’t check with IDES to ...

If claimants apply for unemployment benefits through the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) and receive an eligibility determination of $0, they can then submit a claim for PUA ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) said they will provide free credit monitoring to all those who made Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims.

IDES and Deloitte have been working together to create and maintain the web-based PUA portal. The portal went live on Monday, May 11. It is working in partnership with the vendor to run a full ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KFVS) -The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES will begin to notify to applicants whose information may have been accidentally viewed by a single applicant. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois overpaid unemployment benefits to the tune of $5.2 billion during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with much of it paid to fraudulent claimants ...