56 Ill. Adm. Code 2835.5
Amounts Recoverable by Recoupment
Section 2835
Section 2835.5 Amounts
Recoverable by Recoupment
a) Benefits paid under state law subject to recoupment:
1) The entire amount of benefits previously paid to a claimant
later found ineligible pursuant to a reconsidered Finding or reconsidered
Determination, or pursuant to a Decision of a Hearings Referee or of the Director
under Section 604 of the Act, which modifies or sets aside a Finding or
Determination or a reconsidered Finding or reconsidered Determination. To the
extent allowed by law, such benefits will be recouped from future State or
federal benefits payable to a claimant as set forth in Table A. For purposes
of this Section only, if the Board of Review remands a case to the Hearing
Referee who then decides that the claimant is ineligible for benefits, such
Decision shall make any benefits for which the claimant is then ineligible
subject to recoupment.
EXAMPLE: The Referee affirms a Determination by an Adjudicator holding a
claimant eligible for benefits which have been paid to the claimant. Upon
appeal, the Board of Review remands the case back to the Referee who then sets
aside the Adjudicator's Determination and holds the claimant ineligible. The
benefits for which the claimant was overpaid are now subject to recoupment.
2) Benefits paid to a claimant for weeks with respect to which he
or she received wages by reason of a back pay award made by a governmental
agency or pursuant to arbitration proceedings or by reason of payment of wages
wrongfully withheld by an employing unit.
b) Benefits paid under federal programs subject to recoupment:
1) Benefits paid to UCFE-UCX claimants who have been found
ineligible to receive such benefits in a reconsidered Finding or Determination,
or in a Decision of a Hearings Referee or the Director, may be recouped from
either future UCFE-UCX benefits, or State or other federally funded benefits
payable to such claimant.
2) Recoupment of benefits paid to ineligible claimants under
other federal programs administered by the Director shall be governed by the
applicable federal law.
c) Waiver of Recoupment − Recoupment from future benefits
referred to in subsections (a) and (b) may be waived from week to week in the
manner provided in Section 2835.30 of this Part.