CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some unemployed Illinois residents are being told to come up with thousands of dollars to pay back to the state, the ABC7 I-Team found. In one case, a woman who can barely pay her ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC 7 I-Team investigated overpayments of unemployment benefits involving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). People who are unemployed are being told to come up with amounts ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --This week marks one year since the bottom fell out of Illinois' job market because of the pandemic. On March 16, 2020, weekly jobless claims jumped from 10,000 to more than 114,000, ...

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.

A state audit released Thursday found nearly $2 billion in federal money intended to help unemployed Illinoisans during the pandemic was lost to fraudulent claims in Illinois. The Illinois Department ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KFVS) - The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) has confirmed a limited data access issue within the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) system. An ...

The state agency that distributes unemployment benefits paid out more than $5 billion in fraudulent or excessive claims over two years when the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to cut back their ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) has released how many people have filed for the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment. So far the state has processed 72,671 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) - A new report finds problems with the state's $25 million system for pandemic unemployment systems that may explain why the Illinois Department of Employment Security can't calculate ...