State of Illinois

Department of Employment Security

www.ides.illinois.gov

Benefit Overpayment Information

Illinois Unemployment Act (820 ILCS 405/900)]. To pay your overpayment, make your check or money order payable to the:

Include your name, complete address and ID/Social Security number on your check or money order and mail your payment to:

To pay by phone using a credit card, call: 1- (877) 820-9155. To pay by mail using a credit card complete the credit card

section of the payment transmittal you received and mail it to the address listed above. The credit card used must be issued in

your name.

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If you do not repay the overpayment, the overpaid sums may be recovered from any future monies owed you by the State of

Illinois Comptroller and your Unemployment Insurance benefits may be offset by 25% of your weekly benefit amount.

If the overpayment is due to fraud (i.e., receiving benefits by knowingly making a false statement or failing to disclose a

material facts for the purpose of obtaining benefits). For instance, if you worked, earned wages, or returned to work and did

not accurately or completely report those facts, you made false statements.

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In addition to the dollar amount of the fraud overpayment shown on the letter, you are also ineligible for the number of weeks

which are shown as the penalty period. If you become unemployed, or are currently filing and meet all of the eligibility

requirements, you may receive credit towards the penalty period by certifying for the week of unemployment. No benefits are

paid to you and no credit is applied towards the overpayment balance while you are serving penalty weeks. If you are not

currently filing for benefits but do so at any time within 2 years from the date of this determination, the penalty weeks will be

applied.

Section 900 (par. 490) Recoupment.

A. Whenever an individual has received any sum as benefits for which he is found to have been ineligible, the amount thereof

may be recovered by suit in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, or, from benefits payable to him, may be recouped:

1. At any time, if, to receive such sum, he knowingly made false statement or knowingly failed to disclose a material

2. [O]r within 5 years from any date ... on which he has been found to have been ineligible for any other reason...

E. The amount recouped pursuant to paragraph 2 of subsection A from benefits payable to an individual for any week shall not

exceed 25% of the individual’s weekly benefit amount.

adjudicator referred to in Section 702 that he is ineligible for benefits by reason of the offense described in the first

paragraph and, thereafter, for 6 weeks (with respect to each of which he would be eligible for benefits but for the

provisions of this paragraph) for the first offense, and for 2 additional weeks (with respect to each of which he would

be eligible for benefits but for the provisions of this paragraph) for each subsequent offense. For the purposes of this

paragraph, a separate offense shall be deemed to have been committed in each week for which an individual has

received a sum as benefits for which he was not eligible. No ineligibility under the provisions of this paragraph shall

accrue with respect to any week beginning after which ever of the following occurs first: (1) 26 weeks with respect to

each of which the individual would be eligible for benefits but for the provisions of this paragraph have elapsed since

the date his ineligibility began pursuant to this paragraph, or (2) 2 years have elapsed since the date his ineligibility

political subdivision thereof through the knowing use of false identification documents or through the knowing

misrepresentation of his age, place of residence, number of dependants, marital or family status, employment status,

... or any other material fact upon which his eligibility for or degree of participation in any benefit program might be

based, is guilty of State benefits fraud.

(c) State benefits fraud is a Class 4 felony except when more than $300 is obtained, in which case State benefits

fraud is a Class 3 felony.

32-2. (a) A person commits perjury when, under oath or affirmation, in a proceeding or in any other matter where by

Whenever any person shall be entitled to a warrant or other payment from the treasury or other funds held by the State

Treasurer, on any account, against whom there shall be any account or claim in favor of the State, ... the Comptroller ... may

deduct the entire amount due and payable to the State ... in accordance with request from the notifying agency ...