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Public Act 90-0554

HB0932 Enrolled                                LRB9003759WHgc

    AN ACT in relation to employers and employees.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
changing Sections 235, 301, 401, 500, 1300, 1400, 1507, 2201,
and 2201.1 as follows:

    (820 ILCS 405/235) (from Ch. 48, par. 345)
    Sec. 235.  The term "wages" does not include:
    A.  That  part   of   the   remuneration   which,   after
remuneration  equal  to $6,000 with respect to employment has
been paid to an individual by an employer during any calendar
year after 1977 and before 1980, is paid to  such  individual
by  such employer during such calendar year; and that part of
the remuneration which, after remuneration  equal  to  $6,500
with  respect to employment has been paid to an individual by
an employer during each calendar year 1980 and 1981, is  paid
to  such  individual  by  such  employer during that calendar
year;  and  that  part  of  the  remuneration  which,   after
remuneration  equal  to $7,000 with respect to employment has
been paid to an individual by an employer during the calendar
year 1982 is paid to such individual by such employer  during
that calendar year.
    With  respect  to the first calendar quarter of 1983, the
term "wages" shall include only the remuneration paid  to  an
individual by an employer during such quarter with respect to
employment  which does not exceed $7,000. With respect to the
three calendar quarters, beginning April 1,  1983,  the  term
"wages"  shall  include  only  the  remuneration  paid  to an
individual by an employer during such period with respect  to
employment which when added to the "wages" (as defined in the
preceding  sentence) paid to such individual by such employer
during the first calendar quarter of 1983,  does  not  exceed
$8,000.
    With  respect to the calendar year 1984, the term "wages"
shall include only the remuneration paid to an individual  by
an  employer  during  that  period with respect to employment
which does not exceed $8,000; with respect to calendar  years
1985,  1986 and 1987, the term "wages" shall include only the
remuneration paid to such individual by such employer  during
that  calendar year with respect to employment which does not
exceed $8,500.
    With respect to the calendar years 1988 through 1999 1997
and  calendar  year  2001  1999  and   each   calendar   year
thereafter,   the   term   "wages"  shall  include  only  the
remuneration paid to an individual by an employer during that
period with respect  to  employment  which  does  not  exceed
$9,000.
    With  respect  to  the  calendar year 2000 1998, the term
"wages" shall  include  only  the  remuneration  paid  to  an
individual  by an employer during that period with respect to
employment which does not exceed  $10,000.  The  remuneration
paid  to  an  individual  by  an  employer  with  respect  to
employment   in   another   State   or   States,  upon  which
contributions  were  required  of  such  employer  under   an
unemployment  compensation law of such other State or States,
shall be included as a part  of  the  remuneration  equal  to
$6,000,  $6,500,  $7,000, $8,000, $8,500, $9,000, or $10,000,
as the case may be, herein referred to. For the  purposes  of
this  subsection,  any  employing  unit which succeeds to the
organization, trade, or business, or to substantially all  of
the assets of another employing unit, or to the organization,
trade,  or business, or to substantially all of the assets of
a distinct severable portion of another employing unit, shall
be treated as a single unit  with  its  predecessor  for  the
calendar  year  in  which  such  succession  occurs,  and any
employing unit which is  owned  or  controlled  by  the  same
interests  which  own or control another employing unit shall
be treated as a  single  unit  with  the  unit  so  owned  or
controlled by such interests for any calendar year throughout
which  such  ownership  or  control  exists.  This subsection
applies only to Sections 1400, 1405A, and 1500.
    B.  The amount of any payment (including any amount  paid
by an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to
provide  for  any such payment), made to, or on behalf of, an
individual or any of his dependents under a  plan  or  system
established  by  an  employer which makes provision generally
for individuals performing services  for  him  (or  for  such
individuals generally and their dependents) or for a class or
classes  of  such  individuals  (or for a class or classes of
such individuals and their dependents),  on  account  of  (1)
sickness  or  accident  disability  (except those sickness or
accident disability payments which  would  be  includable  as
"wages"  in  Section  3306(b)(2)(A)  of  the Federal Internal
Revenue Code of 1954, in effect  on  January  1,  1985,  such
includable  payments  to  be  attributable  in such manner as
provided by Section 3306(b) of the Federal  Internal  Revenue
Code  of  1954, in effect on January 1, 1985), or (2) medical
or hospitalization expenses in connection  with  sickness  or
accident disability, or (3) death.
    C.  Any  payment made to, or on behalf of, an employee or
his beneficiary which  would  be  excluded  from  "wages"  by
subparagraph  (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) or (G), of Section
3306(b)(5) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of  1954,  in
effect on January 1, 1985.
    D.  The  amount  of any payment on account of sickness or
accident disability, or medical or  hospitalization  expenses
in  connection  with sickness or accident disability, made by
an employer to, or on behalf  of,  an  individual  performing
services  for him after the expiration of six calendar months
following the last calendar month  in  which  the  individual
performed services for such employer.
    E.  Remuneration paid in any medium other than cash by an
employing  unit  to an individual for service in agricultural
labor as defined in Section 214.
    F.  The amount of any supplemental  payment  made  by  an
employer  to an individual performing services for him, other
than remuneration for services performed, under a shared work
plan approved by the Director pursuant to Section 407.1.
(Source: P.A. 89-633, eff. 1-1-97.)

    (820 ILCS 405/301) (from Ch. 48, par. 381)
    Sec. 301.  Termination of coverage.
    A.  An employing unit shall cease to be an employer as of
the first day of January of any calendar  year,  only  if  it
files  with the Director, prior to the 1st day of February of
such year, a written application for termination of coverage,
and the Director finds that the employment experience of such
employer  within  the  preceding  calendar   year   was   not
sufficient  to render an employing unit an employer under the
provisions of subsections A or B  of  Section  205.  For  the
purposes  of  this  Section,  the two or more employing units
mentioned in subsections C, D, E, or F of Section  205  shall
be treated as a single employing unit.
    B.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  Section 205 and
subsection A of this Section, an employing unit  shall  cease
to be an employer as of the last day of a calendar quarter in
which  it  ceases to pay wages for services in employment and
ceases to have any individual  performing  services  for  it,
provided  that  either  it  files with the Director, within 5
days after the date on which wage reports  are  due  for  the
calendar  quarter,  a  written application for termination of
coverage and the Director approves the  application,  or  the
Director  has  determined  on  his  or  her  own  initiative,
pursuant  to  standards  established  under  duly promulgated
rules, that the employing unit has permanently ceased to  pay
wages  for  services  in employment and permanently ceased to
have any  individual  performing  services  for  it.   If  an
employing unit's coverage is terminated under this subsection
B,  the  termination of coverage shall be rescinded as of the
date that the  employing  unit  begins,  later  in  the  same
calendar year or in the succeeding calendar year, to have any
individual perform services for it on any part of any day.
(Source: P.A. 87-1178.)

    (820 ILCS 405/401) (from Ch. 48, par. 401)
    Sec.   401.    Weekly   Benefit   Amount   -  Dependents'
Allowances.
    A.  With respect to any week beginning prior to April 24,
1983, an individual's  weekly  benefit  amount  shall  be  an
amount  equal to the weekly benefit amount as defined in this
Act as in effect on November 30, 1982.
    B. 1.  With respect to any week  beginning  on  or  after
April  24,  1983  and before January 3, 1988, an individual's
weekly benefit amount shall  be  48%  of  his  prior  average
weekly  wage,  rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple of one
dollar) to the next higher dollar;  provided,  however,  that
the  weekly  benefit  amount cannot exceed the maximum weekly
benefit amount, and cannot be less than 15% of the  statewide
average  weekly  wage,  rounded (if not already a multiple of
one dollar) to the next higher dollar.  However,  the  weekly
benefit  amount  for  an  individual  who  has  established a
benefit year  beginning  before  April  24,  1983,  shall  be
determined,  for  weeks  beginning on or after April 24, 1983
claimed with respect to that benefit year, as provided  under
this  Act as in effect on November 30, 1982.  With respect to
any week beginning on or after January  3,  1988  and  before
January  1, 1993, an individual's weekly benefit amount shall
be 49% of his prior average  weekly  wage,  rounded  (if  not
already  a multiple of one dollar) to the next higher dollar;
provided, however, that  the  weekly  benefit  amount  cannot
exceed  the maximum weekly benefit amount, and cannot be less
than $51.  With respect to any week  beginning  on  or  after
January  3, 1993, an individual's weekly benefit amount shall
be 49.5% of his prior average weekly wage,  rounded  (if  not
already  a multiple of one dollar) to the next higher dollar;
provided, however, that  the  weekly  benefit  amount  cannot
exceed  the  maximum weekly benefit amount and cannot be less
than $51.
    2.  For the purposes of this subsection:
    With respect to any week beginning on or after April  24,
1983,  an  individual's "prior average weekly wage" means the
total wages for insured work paid to that  individual  during
the  2  calendar  quarters  of  his base period in which such
total wages were highest, divided by 26.  If the quotient  is
not  already a multiple of one dollar, it shall be rounded to
the nearest dollar; however if the quotient is equally near 2
multiples of one dollar, it shall be rounded  to  the  higher
multiple of one dollar.
    "Determination date" means June 1, 1982, December 1, 1982
and  December  1 of each succeeding calendar year thereafter.
However, if as of June 30, 1982, or any June  30  thereafter,
the net amount standing to the credit of this State's account
in the unemployment trust fund (less all outstanding advances
to  that account, including advances pursuant to Title XII of
the  federal   Social   Security   Act)   is   greater   than
$100,000,000,  "determination  date" shall mean December 1 of
that year and June 1 of the succeeding year.  Notwithstanding
the  preceding  sentence,  for the purposes of this Act only,
there shall be no June 1 determination date in any year after
1986.
    "Determination period" means, with respect to each June 1
determination date, the 12 consecutive calendar months ending
on the immediately preceding December 31 and, with respect to
each  December  1  determination  date,  the  12  consecutive
calendar months ending on the immediately preceding June 30.
    "Benefit period" means the 12 consecutive calendar  month
period beginning on the first day of the first calendar month
immediately following a determination date, except that, with
respect  to  any  calendar  year  in  which there is a June 1
determination  date,  "benefit  period"  shall  mean  the   6
consecutive  calendar month period beginning on the first day
of  the  first  calendar  month  immediately  following   the
preceding December 1 determination date and the 6 consecutive
calendar month period beginning on the first day of the first
calendar month immediately following the June 1 determination
date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the 6 calendar
months beginning January 1, 1982 and  ending  June  30,  1982
shall  be  deemed  a benefit period with respect to which the
determination date shall be June 1, 1981.
    "Gross wages" means all the  wages  paid  to  individuals
during  the  determination  period  immediately  preceding  a
determination  date  for  insured  work,  and reported to the
Director by employers prior to the first  day  of  the  third
calendar month preceding that date.
    "Covered  employment"  for  any  calendar month means the
total number of individuals, as determined by  the  Director,
engaged in insured work at mid-month.
    "Average monthly covered employment" means one-twelfth of
the  sum  of  the  covered  employment for the 12 months of a
determination period.
    "Statewide  average  annual  wage"  means  the  quotient,
obtained by dividing gross wages by average  monthly  covered
employment for the same determination period, rounded (if not
already a multiple of one cent) to the nearest cent.
    "Statewide  average  weekly  wage"  means  the  quotient,
obtained by dividing the statewide average annual wage by 52,
rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple  of  one cent) to the
nearest cent.  Notwithstanding any provisions of this Section
to the contrary, the statewide average weekly  wage  for  the
benefit period beginning July 1, 1982 and ending December 31,
1982 shall be the statewide average weekly wage in effect for
the immediately preceding benefit period plus one-half of the
result  obtained  by subtracting the statewide average weekly
wage for the immediately preceding benefit  period  from  the
statewide   average   weekly  wage  for  the  benefit  period
beginning July 1, 1982 and ending December 31, 1982  as  such
statewide  average weekly wage would have been determined but
for the provisions of  this  paragraph.  Notwithstanding  any
provisions  of  this  Section  to the contrary, the statewide
average weekly wage for the benefit  period  beginning  April
24,  1983  and  ending January 31, 1984 shall be $321 and for
the benefit period beginning  February  1,  1984  and  ending
December  31,  1986 shall be $335, and for the benefit period
beginning January 1, 1987,  and  ending  December  31,  1987,
shall  be  $350,  except  that  for  an  individual  who  has
established  a  benefit year beginning before April 24, 1983,
the  statewide  average  weekly  wage  used  in   determining
benefits,  for any week beginning on or after April 24, 1983,
claimed with respect to that benefit year, shall be  $334.80,
except  that,  for  the  purpose  of  determining the minimum
weekly benefit amount under subsection B(1) for  the  benefit
period  beginning  January  1,  1987, and ending December 31,
1987, the statewide average weekly wage shall  be  $335;  for
the  benefit  periods  January  1,  1988 through December 31,
1988, January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989, and  January
1,  1990  through  December  31,  1990, the statewide average
weekly wage shall be  $359,  $381,  and  $406,  respectively.
Notwithstanding  the  preceding  sentences of this paragraph,
for the benefit period of calendar year 1991,  the  statewide
average  weekly  wage shall be $406 plus (or minus) an amount
equal to the  percentage  change  in  the  statewide  average
weekly  wage,  as  computed  in accordance with the preceding
sentences of this paragraph, between the benefit  periods  of
calendar  years  1989  and 1990, multiplied by $406; and, for
the benefit periods of calendar years 1992 through 1999  1997
and   calendar   year   2001  1999  and  each  calendar  year
thereafter, the statewide average weekly wage, shall  be  the
statewide  average  weekly  wage, as determined in accordance
with this sentence, for  the  immediately  preceding  benefit
period  plus  (or  minus)  an  amount equal to the percentage
change in the statewide average weekly wage, as  computed  in
accordance  with  the  preceding sentences of this paragraph,
between  the  2  immediately   preceding   benefit   periods,
multiplied   by   the   statewide  average  weekly  wage,  as
determined  in  accordance  with  this  sentence,   for   the
immediately  preceding benefit period. For the benefit period
of 2000 1998, the statewide average weekly wage shall be $524
$491.  Provided however, that for any  benefit  period  after
December  31,  1990,  if  2 of the following 3 factors occur,
then the statewide average weekly wage shall be the statewide
average weekly wage in effect for the  immediately  preceding
benefit  period:  (a)  the  average contribution rate for all
employers in this State for the calendar year 2  years  prior
to  the  benefit  period,  as  a  ratio of total contribution
payments (including payments in  lieu  of  contributions)  to
total wages reported by employers in this State for that same
period  is  0.2%  greater  than  the national average of this
ratio, the foregoing to  be  determined  in  accordance  with
rules  promulgated  by  the Director; (b) the balance in this
State's account in the unemployment trust fund, as  of  March
31  of the prior calendar year, is less than $250,000,000; or
(c) the number  of  first  payments  of  initial  claims,  as
determined  in  accordance  with  rules  promulgated  by  the
Director,  for  the  one year period ending on June 30 of the
prior year, has increased more  than  25%  over  the  average
number  of such payments during the 5 year period ending that
same June 30; and provided further that if (a), (b)  and  (c)
occur,  then the statewide average weekly wage, as determined
in accordance with the preceding sentence, shall be 10%  less
than  it  would  have  been but for these provisions.  If the
reduced amount, computed in  accordance  with  the  preceding
sentence,  is  not already a multiple of one dollar, it shall
be rounded to the nearest dollar.  The 10% reduction  in  the
statewide average weekly wage in the preceding sentence shall
not  be  in  effect  for more than 2 benefit periods of any 5
consecutive benefit periods.  This 10% reduction shall not be
cumulative from year to year.  Neither  the  freeze  nor  the
reduction   shall  be  considered  in  the  determination  of
subsequent years' calculations of  statewide  average  weekly
wage. However, for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act,
the statewide average weekly wage will be computed using June
1  and  December  1 determination dates of each calendar year
and such determination shall not be subject to the limitation
of $321, $335,  $350,  $359,  $381,  $406  or  the  statewide
average  weekly  wage  as  computed  in  accordance  with the
preceding 7 sentences of this paragraph.
    With respect to any week beginning on or after April  24,
1983  and  before  January  3,  1988, "maximum weekly benefit
amount" means 48%  of  the  statewide  average  weekly  wage,
rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple of one dollar) to the
nearest dollar, provided however,  that  the  maximum  weekly
benefit  amount  for  an  individual  who  has  established a
benefit year  beginning  before  April  24,  1983,  shall  be
determined,  for  weeks  beginning on or after April 24, 1983
claimed with respect to that benefit year, as provided  under
this  Act  as  amended  and  in  effect on November 30, 1982,
except that the statewide average weekly wage  used  in  such
determination shall be $334.80.
    With  respect to any week beginning after January 2, 1988
and before January 1, 1993, "maximum weekly  benefit  amount"
with  respect  to each week beginning within a benefit period
means 49% of the statewide average weekly wage,  rounded  (if
not  already  a  multiple  of  one dollar) to the next higher
dollar.
    With respect to any week beginning on or after January 3,
1993, "maximum weekly benefit amount" with  respect  to  each
week  beginning  within  a  benefit period means 49.5% of the
statewide average weekly wage,  rounded  (if  not  already  a
multiple of one dollar) to the next higher dollar.
    C.  With  respect to any week beginning on or after April
24, 1983 and before January 3, 1988, an  individual  to  whom
benefits  are  payable  with  respect  to  any week shall, in
addition to such benefits, be  paid,  with  respect  to  such
week,  as  follows:  in  the  case  of  an  individual with a
nonworking spouse, 7%  of  his  prior  average  weekly  wage,
rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple of one dollar) to the
higher dollar; provided, that the total amount payable to the
individual with respect to a week shall not exceed 55% of the
statewide average weekly wage,  rounded  (if  not  already  a
multiple  of  one  dollar)  to the nearest dollar; and in the
case of an individual with a  dependent  child  or  dependent
children, 14.4% of his prior average weekly wage, rounded (if
not  already  a multiple of one dollar) to the higher dollar;
provided, that the total amount  payable  to  the  individual
with  respect  to  a  week  shall  not  exceed  62.4%  of the
statewide average weekly wage,  rounded  (if  not  already  a
multiple  of  one  dollar)  to  the  next  higher dollar with
respect to the benefit period beginning January 1,  1987  and
ending  December  31,  1987,  and  otherwise  to  the nearest
dollar.  However, for an individual with a nonworking  spouse
or  with  a dependent child or children who has established a
benefit year beginning before April 24, 1983, the  amount  of
additional  benefits  payable  on  account  of the nonworking
spouse or dependent child or children  shall  be  determined,
for  weeks  beginning on or after April 24, 1983 claimed with
respect to that benefit year, as provided under this  Act  as
in  effect  on  November  30, 1982, except that the statewide
average weekly wage  used  in  such  determination  shall  be
$334.80.
    With respect to any week beginning on or after January 2,
1988  and before January 1, 1991 and any week beginning on or
after January  1,  1992,  and  before  January  1,  1993,  an
individual  to  whom benefits are payable with respect to any
week shall, in addition to  those  benefits,  be  paid,  with
respect  to  such  week,  as  follows:  in  the  case  of  an
individual  with a nonworking spouse, 8% of his prior average
weekly wage, rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple  of  one
dollar)  to  the next higher dollar, provided, that the total
amount payable to the individual  with  respect  to  a   week
shall  not  exceed  57% of the statewide average weekly wage,
rounded (if not already a multiple of one dollar) to the next
higher dollar; and in  the  case  of  an  individual  with  a
dependent  child  or  dependent  children,  15%  of his prior
average weekly wage, rounded (if not already  a  multiple  of
one  dollar)  to  the  next  higher dollar, provided that the
total amount payable to the individual with respect to a week
shall not exceed 64% of the statewide  average  weekly  wage,
rounded (if not already a multiple of one dollar) to the next
higher dollar.
    With respect to any week beginning on or after January 1,
1991  and  before  January  1,  1992,  an  individual to whom
benefits are payable with  respect  to  any  week  shall,  in
addition to the benefits, be paid, with respect to such week,
as  follows:  in  the case of an individual with a nonworking
spouse, 8.3% of his prior average weekly  wage,  rounded  (if
not  already  a  multiple  of  one dollar) to the next higher
dollar, provided,  that  the  total  amount  payable  to  the
individual  with  respect to a week shall not exceed 57.3% of
the statewide average weekly wage, rounded (if not already  a
multiple of one dollar) to the next higher dollar; and in the
case  of  an  individual  with a dependent child or dependent
children, 15.3% of his prior average weekly wage, rounded (if
not already a multiple of one  dollar)  to  the  next  higher
dollar,  provided  that  the  total  amount  payable  to  the
individual  with  respect to a week shall not exceed 64.3% of
the statewide average weekly wage, rounded (if not already  a
multiple of one dollar) to the next higher dollar.
    With respect to any week beginning on or after January 3,
1993, an individual to whom benefits are payable with respect
to  any  week  shall, in addition to those benefits, be paid,
with respect to such week, as follows:  in  the  case  of  an
individual  with a nonworking spouse, 9% of his prior average
weekly wage, rounded  (if  not  already  a  multiple  of  one
dollar)  to  the next higher dollar, provided, that the total
amount payable to the individual  with  respect  to  a   week
shall  not exceed 58.5% of the statewide average weekly wage,
rounded (if not already a multiple of one dollar) to the next
higher dollar; and in  the  case  of  an  individual  with  a
dependent  child  or  dependent  children,  16%  of his prior
average weekly wage, rounded (if not already  a  multiple  of
one  dollar)  to  the  next  higher dollar, provided that the
total amount payable to the individual with respect to a week
shall not exceed 65.5% of the statewide average weekly  wage,
rounded (if not already a multiple of one dollar) to the next
higher dollar.
    For the purposes of this subsection:
    "Dependent" means a child or a nonworking spouse.
    "Child"  means  a  natural  child,  stepchild, or adopted
child of an individual claiming benefits under this Act or  a
child  who  is in the custody of any such individual by court
order, for whom the individual is supplying and, for at least
90 consecutive days (or for  the  duration  of  the  parental
relationship  if  it  has  existed  for  less  than  90 days)
immediately preceding any week  with  respect  to  which  the
individual has filed a claim, has supplied more than one-half
the cost of support, or has supplied at least 1/4 of the cost
of  support if the individual and the other parent, together,
are supplying and, during the aforesaid period, have supplied
more than one-half the cost of support,  and  are,  and  were
during  the  aforesaid period, members of the same household;
and who, on the first day of such week (a) is under 18  years
of  age,  or  (b)  is,  and  has  been during the immediately
preceding 90 days, unable to work because of illness or other
disability: provided, that no person who has been  determined
to  be a child of an individual who has been allowed benefits
with respect to a week in the individual's benefit year shall
be deemed to be a child of the other  parent,  and  no  other
person  shall  be  determined  to  be  a  child of such other
parent, during the remainder of that benefit year.
    "Nonworking spouse" means the lawful husband or  wife  of
an individual claiming benefits under this Act, for whom more
than  one-half  the  cost of support has been supplied by the
individual for at least  90  consecutive  days  (or  for  the
duration  of  the  marital relationship if it has existed for
less than  90  days)  immediately  preceding  any  week  with
respect  to  which the individual has filed a claim, but only
if the nonworking spouse is currently ineligible  to  receive
benefits  under  this  Act  by  reason  of  the provisions of
Section 500E.
    An individual who was obligated by law to provide for the
support of  a  child  or  of  a  nonworking  spouse  for  the
aforesaid period of 90 consecutive days, but was prevented by
illness  or  injury  from  doing  so, shall be deemed to have
provided more than one-half the cost of supporting the  child
or nonworking spouse for that period.
(Source: P.A. 89-633, eff. 1-1-97.)

    (820 ILCS 405/500) (from Ch. 48, par. 420)
    Sec.  500.   Eligibility  for  benefits.    An unemployed
individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect
to any week only if the Director finds that:
    A.  He has registered for  work  at  and  thereafter  has
continued  to  report  at  an employment office in accordance
with such regulations as the Director may  prescribe,  except
that  the  Director may, by regulation, waive or alter either
or  both  of  the  requirements  of  this  subsection  as  to
individuals attached to regular jobs, and as  to  such  other
types  of  cases or situations with respect to which he finds
that compliance with such requirements would be oppressive or
inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, provided that  no
such regulation shall conflict with Section 400 of this Act.
    B.  He has made a claim for benefits with respect to such
week  in accordance with such regulations as the Director may
prescribe.
    C.  He is able  to  work,  and  is  available  for  work;
provided  that  during the period in question he was actively
seeking work and he has certified such.   Whenever  requested
to do so by the Director, the individual shall, in the manner
the  Director prescribes by regulation, inform the Department
of on a form provided by the Department listing the places at
which he has sought work  during  the  period  in  question.;
however,     Nothing  in  this  subsection  shall  limit  the
Director's approval of alternate methods of demonstrating  an
active search for work  based on regular reporting to a trade
union office.
         1.  If an otherwise eligible individual is unable to
    work  or is unavailable for work on any normal workday of
    the week, he shall be eligible to receive  benefits  with
    respect  to  such week reduced by one-fifth of his weekly
    benefit amount for each day of such inability to work  or
    unavailability  for  work.   For  the  purposes  of  this
    paragraph,  an individual who reports on a day subsequent
    to his designated report day shall be deemed  unavailable
    for  work  on  his report day if his failure to report on
    that day is without good cause, and on  each  intervening
    day,  if  any,  on which his failure to report is without
    good cause.  As used in the preceding  sentence,  "report
    day"  means  the  day  which  has been designated for the
    individual to report to file his claim for benefits  with
    respect  to  any  week.   This  paragraph  shall  not  be
    construed  so  as  to  effect any change in the status of
    part-time workers as defined in Section 407.
         2.  An  individual  shall  be   considered   to   be
    unavailable  for work on days listed as whole holidays in
    "An Act to revise  the  law  in  relation  to  promissory
    notes,   bonds,   due  bills  and  other  instruments  in
    writing," approved March 18, 1874, as  amended;  on  days
    which  are holidays in his religion or faith, and on days
    which are holidays according to the custom of  his  trade
    or  occupation,  if  his failure to work on such day is a
    result of the holiday.   In  determining  the  claimant's
    eligibility  for  benefits and the amount to be paid him,
    with respect to the week in which such holiday occurs, he
    shall have attributed to him as additional  earnings  for
    that  week  an  amount  equal  to one-fifth of his weekly
    benefit amount for each normal work day on which he  does
    not   work  because  of  a  holiday  of  the  type  above
    enumerated.
         3.  An individual shall be  deemed  unavailable  for
    work  if,  after  his  separation  from  his  most recent
    employing unit, he has removed himself to and remains  in
    a locality where opportunities for work are substantially
    less favorable than those in the locality he has left.
         4.  An  individual  shall  be deemed unavailable for
    work with respect to any week which occurs  in  a  period
    when  his  principal  occupation  is that of a student in
    attendance at, or on vacation from, a public  or  private
    school.
         5.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of this
    Act, an individual shall not be  deemed  unavailable  for
    work  or  to have failed actively to seek work, nor shall
    he  be  ineligible  for  benefits  by   reason   of   the
    application  of  the  provisions  of  Section  603,  with
    respect  to any week, because he is enrolled in and is in
    regular attendance at a training course approved for  him
    by the Director:
              (a)  but  only  if,  with respect to that week,
         the individual presents, upon request, to the claims
         adjudicator referred to in Section 702  a  statement
         executed  by a responsible person connected with the
         training course, certifying that the individual  was
         in  full-time  attendance  at such course during the
         week.  The Director may approve such course  for  an
         individual only if he finds that (1) reasonable work
         opportunities  for which the individual is fitted by
         training  and  experience  do  not  exist   in   his
         locality;  (2)  the  training  course  relates to an
         occupation or skill for  which  there  are,  or  are
         expected  to  be in the immediate future, reasonable
         work opportunities in his locality; (3) the training
         course  is  offered  by  a  competent  and  reliable
         agency, educational institution, or employing  unit;
         (4)  the  individual has the required qualifications
         and aptitudes to complete the  course  successfully;
         and  (5)  the individual is not receiving and is not
         eligible (other than because he has claimed benefits
         under this Act) for subsistence payments or  similar
         assistance  under  any  public or private retraining
         program:  Provided,  that  the  Director  shall  not
         disapprove  such  course  solely by reason of clause
         (5) if the subsistence payment or similar assistance
         is subject to reduction by an amount  equal  to  any
         benefits payable to the individual under this Act in
         the  absence  of  the  clause.  In the event that an
         individual's   weekly   unemployment    compensation
         benefit   is   less   than  his  certified  training
         allowance, that person shall be eligible to  receive
         his  entire unemployment compensation benefits, plus
         such supplemental  training  allowances  that  would
         make  an  applicant's total weekly benefit identical
         to the original certified training allowance.
              (b)  The Director shall have the  authority  to
         grant  approval  pursuant  to subparagraph (a) above
         prior to an individual's  formal  admission  into  a
         training  course. Requests for approval shall not be
         made more than 30 days prior to the actual  starting
         date  of  such course. Requests shall be made at the
         appropriate unemployment office. Notwithstanding any
         other provision to the contrary, the Director  shall
         approve  a course for an individual if the course is
         provided to the individual under Title  III  of  the
         federal Job Training Partnership Act.
              (c)  The   Director   shall   for  purposes  of
         paragraph C have the authority to  issue  a  blanket
         approval  of  training programs implemented pursuant
         to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and
         the  Job  Training  Partnership  Act  if  both   the
         training   program   and   the   criteria   for   an
         individual's participation in such training meet the
         requirements of this paragraph C.
              (d)  Notwithstanding    the   requirements   of
         subparagraph  (a),  the  Director  shall  have   the
         authority  to  issue  blanket  approval  of training
         programs implemented under the terms of a collective
         bargaining agreement.
         6.  Notwithstanding any  other  provisions  of  this
    Act,  an  individual  shall not be deemed unavailable for
    work or to have failed actively to seek work,  nor  shall
    he   be   ineligible  for  benefits,  by  reason  of  the
    application of the provisions of Section 603 with respect
    to any week because he  is  in  training  approved  under
    Section  236 (a)(1) of the federal Trade Act of 1974, nor
    shall an individual be ineligible for benefits under  the
    provisions  of  Section  601  by  reason  of leaving work
    voluntarily to enter such training if the  work  left  is
    not  of  a substantially equal or higher skill level than
    the individual's past adversely  affected  employment  as
    defined under the federal Trade Act of 1974 and the wages
    for  such  work  are  less than 80% of his average weekly
    wage as determined under the federal Trade Act of 1974.
    D.  If his benefit year begins prior to July 6,  1975  or
subsequent  to  January 2, 1982, he has been unemployed for a
waiting period of 1 week during such  benefit  year.  If  his
benefit  year  begins  on or after July 6, l975, but prior to
January 3, 1982, and his unemployment continues for more than
three weeks during such benefit year, he  shall  be  eligible
for  benefits with respect to each week of such unemployment,
including the first week thereof.   An  individual  shall  be
deemed to be unemployed within the meaning of this subsection
while   receiving   public  assistance  as  remuneration  for
services performed on work projects financed from funds  made
available to governmental agencies for such purpose.  No week
shall  be  counted as a week of unemployment for the purposes
of this subsection:
         1.  Unless it occurs within the benefit  year  which
    includes the week with respect to which he claims payment
    of  benefits,  provided that, for benefit years beginning
    prior to January 3,  1982,  this  requirement  shall  not
    interrupt  the  payment of benefits for consecutive weeks
    of unemployment;  and  provided  further  that  the  week
    immediately  preceding  a  benefit  year,  if part of one
    uninterrupted period of unemployment which continues into
    such benefit year, shall be deemed (for  the  purpose  of
    this  subsection  only  and with respect to benefit years
    beginning prior to January 3, 1982, only)  to  be  within
    such  benefit  year,  as  well  as  within  the preceding
    benefit year, if the unemployed individual would,  except
    for the provisions of the first paragraph and paragraph 1
    of  this  subsection  and of Section 605, be eligible for
    and entitled to benefits for such week.
         2.  If benefits have been paid with respect thereto.
         3.  Unless the individual was eligible for  benefits
    with  respect thereto except for the requirements of this
    subsection and of Section 605.
    E.  With respect to any benefit year beginning  prior  to
January  3,  1982,  he  has  been paid during his base period
wages for insured work not less than the amount specified  in
Section  500E of this Act as amended and in effect on October
5, 1980. With respect to any benefit  year  beginning  on  or
after  January  3,  1982,  he  has  been paid during his base
period wages for insured work equal to not less than  $1,600,
provided  that  he has been paid wages for insured work equal
to at least $440 during that part of his  base  period  which
does not include the calendar quarter in which the wages paid
to him were highest.
    F.  During  that week he has participated in reemployment
services to which he has been  referred,  including  but  not
limited  to  job  search  assistance  services, pursuant to a
profiling system established  by  the  Director  by  rule  in
conformity  with  Section  303(j)(1)  of  the  federal Social
Security Act, unless the Director determines that:
         1.  the individual has completed such services; or
         2.  there is justifiable cause  for  the  claimant's
    failure to participate in such services.
    This subsection F is added by this amendatory Act of 1995
to clarify authority already provided under subsections A and
C  in  connection  with  the  unemployment insurance claimant
profiling  system  required  under  subsections  (a)(10)  and
(j)(1) of Section 303 of the federal Social Security Act as a
condition of federal funding for the  administration  of  the
Unemployment Insurance Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-655, eff. 9-16-94; 89-21, eff. 6-6-95.)

    (820 ILCS 405/1300) (from Ch. 48, par. 540)
    Sec.  1300.   Waiver  or  transfer  of  benefit  rights -
Partial exemption.
    (A)  Except as otherwise provided herein any agreement by
an individual to waive, release or commute his  rights  under
this Act shall be void.
    (B)  Benefits  due  under this Act shall not be assigned,
pledged, encumbered, released or commuted and shall be exempt
from all claims of creditors and  from  levy,  execution  and
attachment  or  other  remedy for recovery or collection of a
debt.  However, nothing in  this  Section  shall  prohibit  a
specified  or  agreed  upon  deduction  from  benefits  by an
individual,  or  a  court   or   administrative   order   for
withholding  of income, for payment of past due child support
from being enforced and collected by the Department of Public
Aid on behalf of persons receiving a grant of  financial  aid
under Article IV of The Illinois Public Aid Code, persons for
whom  an  application  has been made and approved for support
services  under  Section  10-1  of  such  Code,  or   persons
similarly  situated  and  receiving  like support services in
other states.   It is provided that:
         (1)  The aforementioned deduction  of  benefits  and
    order for withholding of income apply only if appropriate
    arrangements  have  been  made  for  reimbursement to the
    Director  by  the  Department  of  Public  Aid  for   any
    administrative  costs incurred by the Director under this
    Section.
         (2)  The Director shall  deduct  and  withhold  from
    benefits payable under this Act, or under any arrangement
    for  the payment of benefits entered into by the Director
    pursuant to the powers granted under Section 2700 of this
    Act, the amount specified or agreed upon.  In the case of
    a court   or  administrative  order  for  withholding  of
    income,  the  Director  shall  withhold the amount of the
    order.
         (3)  Any  amount  deducted  and  withheld   by   the
    Director shall be paid to the Department of Public Aid on
    behalf of the individual.
         (4)  Any   amount   deducted   and   withheld  under
    subsection (3) shall for all purposes be treated as if it
    were paid to the individual as benefits and paid by  such
    individual   to   the   Department   of   Public  Aid  in
    satisfaction   of   the   individual's   child    support
    obligations.
         (5)  For  the purpose of this Section, child support
    is defined as those obligations which are being  enforced
    pursuant to a plan described in Title IV, Part D, Section
    454  of  the  Social  Security  Act  and  approved by the
    Secretary of Health and Human Services.
         (6)  The  deduction  of  benefits  and   order   for
    withholding of income for child support shall be governed
    by  Titles  III and IV of the Social Security Act and all
    regulations duly promulgated thereunder.
    (C)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
voluntarily electing to have federal income tax deducted  and
withheld  from  his  or  her  unemployment  insurance benefit
payments.
         (1)  The  Director  shall,  at  the  time  that   an
    individual  files  his  or  her  claim  for benefits that
    establishes  his  or  her  benefit   year,   inform   the
    individual that:
              (a)  unemployment   insurance   is  subject  to
         federal, State, and local income taxes;
              (b)  requirements exist pertaining to estimated
         tax payments;
              (c)  the individual may elect to  have  federal
         income  tax  deducted  and  withheld from his or her
         payments of unemployment  insurance  in  the  amount
         specified in the federal Internal Revenue Code; and
              (d)  the  individual  is  permitted to change a
         previously elected withholding status no  more  than
         once each calendar year.
         (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
    insurance  shall  remain  in  the unemployment fund until
    transferred to the federal taxing authority as a  payment
    of income tax.
         (3)  The   Director   shall  follow  all  procedures
    specified by the United States Department  of  Labor  and
    the  federal  Internal  Revenue Service pertaining to the
    deducting and withholding of income tax.
         (4)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
    accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
    promulgated by the Director.
    (D)  Nothing in this Section prohibits an individual from
voluntarily electing to have State  of  Illinois  income  tax
deducted  and withheld from his or her unemployment insurance
benefit  payments  if  such  deduction  and  withholding   is
provided for pursuant to rules promulgated by the Director.
         (1)  If   pursuant   to  rules  promulgated  by  the
    Director, an individual may  voluntarily  elect  to  have
    State  of  Illinois income tax deducted and withheld from
    his or her unemployment insurance benefit  payments,  the
    Director  shall, at the time that an individual files his
    or her claim for benefits that  establishes  his  or  her
    benefit   year,  in  addition  to  providing  the  notice
    required under subsection C, inform the individual that:
              (a)  the individual may elect to have State  of
         Illinois  income  tax deducted and withheld from his
         or her payments of  unemployment  insurance  in  the
         amount  specified  pursuant  to rules promulgated by
         the Director; and
              (b)  the individual is permitted  to  change  a
         previously  elected  withholding status no more than
         once each calendar year.
         (2)  Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment
    insurance shall remain in  the  unemployment  fund  until
    transferred  to the Department of Revenue as a payment of
    State of Illinois income tax.
         (3)  Amounts  shall  be  deducted  and  withheld  in
    accordance  with  the  priorities  established  in  rules
    promulgated by the Director.
    (E)  Nothing in this Section prohibits the deduction  and
withholding  of  an  uncollected  overissuance  of food stamp
coupons from unemployment insurance benefits pursuant to this
subsection (E).
         (1)  At the time that an individual  files  a  claim
    for  benefits  that  establishes his or her benefit year,
    that individual must disclose whether or not  he  or  she
    owes  an  uncollected overissuance (as defined in Section
    13(c)(1) of the federal Food Stamp Act of 1977)  of  food
    stamp  coupons.  The Director shall notify the State food
    stamp agency enforcing such obligation of any  individual
    who   discloses  that  he  or  she  owes  an  uncollected
    overissuance of food stamp  coupons  and  who  meets  the
    monetary  eligibility  requirements  of  subsection  E of
    Section 500.
         (2)  The Director shall deduct and withhold from any
    unemployment insurance benefits payable to an  individual
    who  owes  an  uncollected  overissuance  of  food  stamp
    coupons:
              (a)  the  amount specified by the individual to
         the Director to be deducted and withheld under  this
         subsection (E);
              (b)  the amount (if any) determined pursuant to
         an  agreement  submitted  to  the  State  food stamp
         agency under Section 13(c)(3)(A) of the federal Food
         Stamp Act of 1977; or
              (c)  any  amount  otherwise  required   to   be
         deducted  and  withheld  from unemployment insurance
         benefits pursuant  to  Section  13(c)(3)(B)  of  the
         federal Food Stamp Act of 1977.
         (3)  Any  amount  deducted  and withheld pursuant to
    this subsection (E) shall be paid by the Director to  the
    State food stamp agency.
         (4)  Any  amount  deducted  and withheld pursuant to
    this subsection (E) shall for all purposes be treated  as
    if  it  were  paid  to  the  individual  as  unemployment
    insurance  benefits  and  paid  by  the individual to the
    State food stamp agency as repayment of the  individual's
    uncollected overissuance of food stamp coupons.
         (5)  For    purposes   of   this   subsection   (E),
    "unemployment insurance benefits" means any  compensation
    payable  under  this Act including amounts payable by the
    Director pursuant to an agreement under any  federal  law
    providing  for  compensation,  assistance,  or allowances
    with respect to unemployment.
         (6)  This   subsection   (E)   applies    only    if
    arrangements  have  been  made  for  reimbursement by the
    State food stamp  agency  for  the  administrative  costs
    incurred  by the Director under this subsection (E) which
    are  attributable  to  the   repayment   of   uncollected
    overissuances  of  food  stamp  coupons to the State food
    stamp agency.
(Source: P.A. 89-446, eff. 1-1-97; 90-425, eff. 8-15-97.)

    (820 ILCS 405/1400) (from Ch. 48, par. 550)
    Sec. 1400. Payment of contributions.   On and after  July
1,  1937,  contributions  shall  accrue and become payable by
each employer for each calendar year in which he  is  subject
to  this  Act,  with  respect to wages payable for employment
occurring during the six months'  period  beginning  July  1,
1937,  and  the  calendar years 1938, 1939, and 1940. For the
year  1941   and   for   each   calendar   year   thereafter,
contributions   shall  accrue  and  become  payable  by  each
employer upon the wages paid with respect to employment after
December 31, 1940. Such contributions shall  become  due  and
shall  be  paid  quarterly  on  or before the last day of the
month next following the  calendar  quarter  for  which  such
contributions  have  accrued; except that any employer who is
delinquent in filing a contribution report or in  paying  his
contributions for any calendar quarter may, at the discretion
of   the   Director,   be  required  to  report  and  to  pay
contributions on a calendar month basis.  Such  contributions
shall not be deducted, in whole or in part, from the wages of
individuals  in such employer's employ. If the Director shall
find  that  the  collection  of  any  contributions  will  be
jeopardized  by  delay,  he  may  declare  the  same  to   be
immediately due and payable.
    In   the  payment  of  any  contributions,  interest,  or
penalties, a fractional part of a cent shall  be  disregarded
unless  it amounts to one-half cent or more, in which case it
shall be increased to one cent.
    The Director may by regulation provide that  if,  at  any
time,  a  total  amount of less than $2 $1.00 is payable with
respect to a quarter, including any  contributions,  payments
in  lieu of contributions, as a quarterly contribution, or as
interest or penalties, such amount may be  disregarded.   Any
amounts  contributions  disregarded  under this paragraph are
deemed to have been paid for all other purposes of this  Act.
Nothing in this paragraph is intended to relieve any employer
from  filing any reports required by this Act or by any rules
or regulations adopted by the Director pursuant to this Act.
    Except with respect to the provisions concerning  amounts
that  may be disregarded pursuant to regulation, this Section
does  not  apply  to  any  nonprofit  organization   or   any
governmental  entity  referred  to in subsection B of Section
1405 for any period with respect to which it does  not  incur
liability  for  the  payment  of  contributions  by reason of
having elected to make payments in lieu of contributions,  or
to any political subdivision or municipal corporation for any
period with respect to which it is not subject to payments in
lieu  of contributions under the provisions of paragraph 1 of
Section 302C by reason of having elected to make payments  in
lieu  of  contributions under paragraph 2 of that Section, or
to the State of Illinois or any of its instrumentalities.
(Source: P.A. 80-2dSS-1.)

    (820 ILCS 405/1507) (from Ch. 48, par. 577)
    Sec.  1507.   Contribution   rates   of   successor   and
predecessor  employing  units. A. Whenever any employing unit
succeeds to substantially all of the employing enterprises of
another employing  unit,  then  in  determining  contribution
rates  for any calendar year, the experience rating record of
the predecessor prior to the succession shall be  transferred
to  the  successor  and thereafter it shall not be treated as
the experience rating record of the  predecessor,  except  as
provided  in  subsection B. Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection  B,  whenever  any  employing  unit  succeeds   to
substantially  all  of  the  employing enterprises of another
employing  unit,  within  120  days  of  such  transfer,  the
successor employing unit shall  file  such  reports  of  this
succession as may be required by the Director. The failure of
an  employing  unit  to file such reports shall result in the
denial of the transfer of the predecessor's experience rating
record to the successor  except  where  such  transfer  would
result  in  a  higher revised rate for the successor in which
case the experience rating record of the predecessor shall be
transferred to the successor as of the date of  the  transfer
without  regard  to  the  filing  of  such  reports.  For the
purposes of this Section, such experience rating record shall
consist of all years during which liability for  the  payment
of contributions was incurred by the predecessor prior to the
succession,  all  benefit  wages based upon wages paid by the
predecessor prior to  the  succession,  all  benefit  charges
based  on  benefits  paid  by  the  predecessor  prior to the
succession, and all  wages  for  insured  work  paid  by  the
predecessor prior to the succession.
    B.  The provisions of this subsection shall be applicable
only  to  the  determination  of  contribution  rates for the
calendar year 1956 and for  each  calendar  year  thereafter.
Whenever  any  employing  unit has succeeded to substantially
all of the employing enterprises of another  employing  unit,
but  the  predecessor  employing unit has retained a distinct
severable portion of its employing  enterprises  or  whenever
any  employing  unit  has  succeeded  to a distinct severable
portion which is less than substantially all of the employing
enterprises  of  another  employing   unit,   the   successor
employing  unit  shall  acquire  the experience rating record
attributable to the portion to which it  has  succeeded,  and
the  predecessor  employing  unit shall retain the experience
rating record  attributable  to  the  portion  which  it  has
retained, if--
    1.  The employing unit which desires to acquire or retain
such  a  distinct severable portion of such experience rating
record has filed such reports giving notice of  the  transfer
as  may  be  required by the Director within 120 days of such
transfer; and
    2.  It files a written application  for  such  experience
rating  record which is joined in by the employing unit which
is then entitled to such experience rating record; and
    3.  The joint application contains  such  information  as
the  Director  shall  by regulation prescribe which will show
that  such  experience  rating  record  is  identifiable  and
segregable and, therefore, capable of being transferred; and
    4.  The joint application is filed prior to whichever  of
the  following dates is the latest: (a) July 1, 1956; (b) one
year after the date of the succession; or (c) the  date  that
the  rate  determination  of  the  employing  unit  which has
applied for such experience rating record  has  become  final
for the calendar year immediately following the calendar year
in  which the succession occurs. The filing of a timely joint
application shall not affect any rate determination which has
become final, as provided by Section 1509.
    If all of the foregoing requirements are  met,  then  the
Director  shall transfer such experience rating record to the
employing unit which has applied therefor, and it  shall  not
be  treated  as the experience rating record of the employing
unit which has joined in the application.
    Whenever any employing unit is reorganized  into  two  or
more  employing  units,  and  any of such employing units are
owned or controlled by the  same  interests  which  owned  or
controlled  the  predecessor prior to the reorganization, and
the provisions of this subsection become applicable  thereto,
then  such  affiliated  employing  units during the period of
their affiliation shall be treated as a single employing unit
for the purpose of determining their rates of contributions.
    C.  For the calendar year in which  a  succession  occurs
which   results  in  the  total  or  partial  transfer  of  a
predecessor's  experience  rating  record,  the  contribution
rates of the parties  thereto  shall  be  determined  in  the
following manner:
    1.  If  any  of  such  parties  had  a  contribution rate
applicable to it for that calendar year,  it  shall  continue
with such contribution rate.
    2.  If  any successor had no contribution rate applicable
to it for that calendar year, and  only  one  predecessor  is
involved,  then  the contribution rate of the successor shall
be the same as that of its predecessor.
    3.  If any successor had no contribution rate  applicable
to  it  for  that calendar year, and two or more predecessors
are involved, then the contribution  rate  of  the  successor
shall  be computed, on the combined experience rating records
of the predecessors  or  on  the  appropriate  part  of  such
records  if  any partial transfer is involved, as provided in
Sections 1500 to 1507, inclusive.
    4.  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 2 and  3
of  this  subsection,  if  any succession occurs prior to the
calendar year 1956 and the successor  acquires  part  of  the
experience  rating  record  of the predecessor as provided in
subsection B of this Section, then the contribution  rate  of
that successor for the calendar year in which such succession
occurs shall be 2.7 percent.
(Source: P.A. 85-956.)
    (820 ILCS 405/2201) (from Ch. 48, par. 681)
    Sec.  2201.   Refund or adjustment of contributions.  Not
later  than  3  years  after  the   date   upon   which   any
contributions,  interest  or  penalties thereon were paid, an
employing unit which has paid such contributions, interest or
penalties thereon erroneously, may  file  a  claim  with  the
Director   for  an  adjustment  thereof  in  connection  with
subsequent contribution payments, or  for  a  refund  thereof
where such adjustment cannot be made; provided, however, that
no  refund  or  adjustment shall be made of any contribution,
the amount of which has been determined and assessed  by  the
Director,   if   such   contribution   was   paid  after  the
determination and assessment of the  Director  became  final,
and  provided,  further,  that any such adjustment or refund,
involving contributions with respect to wages on the basis of
which benefits have been paid, shall be reduced by the amount
of benefits so paid. Upon receipt of  a  claim  the  Director
shall  make  his determination, either allowing such claim in
whole or in part, or ordering that it be  denied,  and  serve
notice   upon   the  claimant  of  such  determination.  Such
determination  of  the  Director  shall  be  final   at   the
expiration of 20 days from the date of service of such notice
unless  the  claimant  shall  have  filed with the Director a
written protest and a petition for  hearing,  specifying  his
objections  thereto. Upon receipt of such petition within the
20 days allowed, the Director shall fix the  time  and  place
for  a  hearing and shall notify the claimant thereof. At any
hearing held as herein provided,  the  determination  of  the
Director shall be prima facie correct and the burden shall be
upon  the  protesting  employing  unit  to  prove  that it is
incorrect. All of the provisions of this  Act  applicable  to
hearings   conducted   pursuant  to  Section  2200  shall  be
applicable to hearings conducted pursuant  to  this  Section.
Upon the conclusion of such hearing, a decision shall be made
by  the Director and notice thereof given to the claimant. If
the Director shall decide that the claim be allowed in  whole
or  in  part,  or  if  such allowance be ordered by the Court
pursuant to Section 2205 and the judgment of said  Court  has
become  final,  the  Director  shall,  if  practicable,  make
adjustment  without  interest  in  connection with subsequent
contribution payments by the  claimant,  and  if  adjustments
thereof  cannot  practicably  be made in connection with such
subsequent contribution payments,  then  the  Director  shall
refund  to  the  claimant  the  amount  so  allowed,  without
interest  except as otherwise provided in Section 2201.1 from
moneys in  the  benefit  account  established  by  this  Act.
Nothing  herein  contained  shall  prohibit the Director from
making adjustment or refund upon his own  initiative,  within
the time allowed for filing claim therefor, provided that the
Director   shall   make   no  refund  or  adjustment  of  any
contribution,  the  amount  of  which   he   has   previously
determined  and assessed, if such contribution was paid after
the determination and assessment became final.
    If this State should not be certified for any year by the
Secretary of Labor of the United States of America, or  other
appropriate Federal agency, under Section 3304 of the Federal
Internal  Revenue  Code  of  1954,  the Director shall refund
without interest to any instrumentality of the United  States
subject to this Act by virtue of permission granted in an Act
of  Congress,  the  amount  of  contributions  paid  by  such
instrumentality with respect to such year.
    The  Director may by regulation provide that, if there is
a total credit balance of  less  than  $2  in  an  employer's
account   with   respect   to  contributions,  interest,  and
penalties, the amount may be  disregarded  by  the  Director;
once disregarded, the amount shall not be considered a credit
balance  in the account and shall not be subject to either an
adjustment or a refund.
(Source: P.A. 84-1336.)

    (820 ILCS 405/2201.1) (from Ch. 48, par. 681.1)
    Sec.  2201.1.   Interest   on   Overpaid   Contributions,
Penalties and Interest.  The Director shall quarterly furnish
each  employer  with  a  statement  of credit balances in the
employer's account where the balances  with  respect  to  all
contributions,  interest  and  penalties  combined  equal  or
exceed  $2.  Under regulations prescribed by the Director and
subject to the limitations of Section 2201, the employer  may
file  a  request  for  an  adjustment or refund of the amount
erroneously paid.  Interest  shall  be  paid  on  refunds  of
erroneously   paid   contributions,  penalties  and  interest
imposed by this Act, except that if any refund is  mailed  by
the  Director  within  90  days  after the date of the refund
claim, no interest shall be due or paid.  The interest  shall
begin  to accrue as of the date of the refund claim and shall
be paid at the rate of 1.5% per month computed at the rate of
12/365 of 1.5% for each day  or  fraction  thereof.  Interest
paid  pursuant  to  this Section shall be paid from monies in
the special administrative account  established  by  Sections
2100  and  2101.  This Section shall apply only to refunds of
contributions, penalties and interest which were paid as  the
result of wages paid after January 1, 1988.
(Source: P.A. 85-956.)

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

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