(820 ILCS 405/2702) (from Ch. 48, par. 762)
Sec. 2702.
Exchange
of information, services and facilities-Equality of rights of
nonresidents.
A. The administration of this Act and of other State and Federal
unemployment compensation and public employment service laws will be
promoted by cooperation between this State and such other States and the
appropriate Federal agencies in exchanging services, and making available
facilities and information. The Director is therefore authorized to make
such investigations, secure and transmit such information, make available
such services and facilities and exercise such of the other powers provided
herein with respect to the administration of this Act as he deems necessary
or appropriate to facilitate the administration of any such unemployment
compensation or public employment service law and, in like manner, to
accept and utilize information, services, and facilities made available to
this State by the agency charged with the administration of any such other
unemployment compensation or public employment service law.
B. To the extent permissible under the laws and Constitution of the
United States, the Director is authorized to enter into or cooperate in
arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under this Act and
facilities and services provided under the unemployment compensation law of
any foreign government may be utilized for the taking of claims and the
payment of benefits under this Act or under the unemployment compensation
law of such foreign government.
C. Benefits shall not be denied or reduced to an individual solely
because he files a claim in another State or in Canada or solely because he
resides in another State or in Canada at the time he files a claim for
benefits.
(Source: P.A. 77-1443.)
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