Section 2815.115  Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Acting for the Director

In order to insure prompt action on all orders for withholding of income or agreements to deduct referred to in Section 2815.105 and to insure speedy review of the Director's orders granting deductions, the Director appoints the Division of Child Support, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, as the Director's agent to act for and on behalf of the Director in the following cases:

a)         To receive service of the court or administrative order for withholding of income or to accept the presentation of an agreement to deduct from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services required in Section 2815.105(a) and (b);

b)         To determine the sufficiency of the order or the agreement in accordance with the requirements provided in Section 2815.105;

c)         To design and adopt a compatible program that could be entered in the Agency's computer system and enable the Director:

1)         To know if the beneficiary of the order or the party to the agreement is a claimant receiving benefits under the Act;

2)         To start or stop the deductions from benefits after the issuance of the appropriate order by the Director;

d)         To receive all filings of appeals connected with the Director's order granting the deduction from benefits and forward them to the Appeals  Division, 33 South State Street, 8^th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603;

e)         To receive and respond to all inquiries relating to the implementation of orders to stop further deductions, the enforcement and collection of orders for withholding of income or agreements to deduct, and the procedure for making an appeal from an order granting deductions.  The inquiries shall be addressed to:  Division of Child Support, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, P.O. Box 19405, Springfield, Illinois 62794.

(Source:  Amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 9668, effective July 1, 2009)