86 Ill. Adm. Code 140.1410
Refunds
Section 140
Section 140.1410 Refunds
In case the Department
determines that the claimant is entitled to a refund, such refund shall be made
only from such appropriation as may be available for that purpose. If it
appears unlikely that the amount appropriated would permit everyone having a claim
allowed during the period covered by such appropriation to elect to receive a
cash refund, the Department will make such refunds only in hardship cases
(i.e., in cases in which the claimant cannot use a credit memorandum). The two
most likely situations where this would be the case are the situation in which
the claimant has discontinued business and the situation in which the claimant
will have a small volume of liability to the Department in the foreseeable
future, but receives a large credit memorandum which it therefore might take
the claimant a long time to liquidate by using it to pay current taxes. In
these instances, the claimant probably would have to sell the credit memorandum
at a loss in order to realize anything from it within any reasonable period of
time.