State Representative Chris Miller of the 110th District. Photo submitted by State Representative Chris Miller's office.
For Immediate Release – March 18, 2022
Rep. Chris Miller – “How does Illinois repay billions owed to Feds for unemployment benefits when Pritzker shut down state”
A group of Illinois House Republicans gathered this week at the capitol to discuss the Illinois Department of Employment Services and debt the state owes the Federal Government for benefits that were paid over the last two years when Governor Pritzker shut down the state.State officials knew last year they were going to have to pay back over $5-billion which they had borrowed from the Federal Government, however, Democrats who control the legislature, rather than take the bull by the horns and deal with this last year decided they didn’t want to have to deal with this until July 1st of 2022. This is a problem because on April 1st of this year the state’s exemption runs out on how to deal with funding the unemployment benefit fund.
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