92nd General Assembly
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Senate Sponsors:
RADOGNO.

House Sponsors:
BEAUBIEN

Short description: 
UNEMPLOYMENT INS-TRAINING COUR                                             

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends  the  Unemployment  Insurance  Act.   Provides  that   the      
   Director  of  Employment  Security  has  authority  to issue a blanket      
   approval of qualified job training programs  implemented  pursuant  to      
   the  federal  Workforce  Investment  Act  of  1998  (rather  than  the      
   Comprehensive  Employment  and  Training  Act  and  the  Job  Training      
   Partnership Act).                                                           
        HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                 
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          820 ILCS 405/703                from Ch. 48, par. 453                
        Further amends the Unemployment Insurance Act.  Provides that the      
   claims adjudicator may reconsider  his  or  her  findings  as  to  the      
   payment  of  benefits within 3 years after the last day of the week if      
   the issue is whether or not, by reason of a back pay award made by any      
   governmental agency or pursuant  to  arbitration  proceedings,  or  by      
   reason of a payment of wages wrongfully withheld by an employing unit,      
   an  individual  has received wages for a week with respect to which he      
   or she has received benefits.  Provides that  the  claims  adjudicator      
   may  reconsider  his  or  her  findings  within 3 years (rather than 2      
   years) if the issue is  whether or not the claimant  misstated his  or      
   her earnings for the week.                                                  
          FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Department of Employment Security)              
          Up to $1,885,000 of potential administrative cost is avoided by      
          updating the training program name reference. Under H-am 1, the      
          Department would have another year to recover previously paid        
          unemployment insurance benefits that are now covered under the       
          backpay award. There is no additional administrative cost            
          incurred by the extension of the time period for reconsidera-        
          tion due to the limited scope of the amendment. There would be       
          a net positive gain to the State's Unemployment Insurance            
          Trust Fund account due to the recovery of the benefits that          
          were overpaid due to a backpay award. This amount is not             
          possible to quantify in that the number of backpay awards im-        
          pacting unemployment insurance claims is stochastic and the          
          number of those awards extending beyond two years beyond the         
          last date of unemployment insurance claim but no longer than         
          three years in simply not known.                                     
 
Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0396

   Last action date: AUG-16-2001

           Location: Senate

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   1     SENATE -   0


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