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(The Center Square) – After an Illinois Auditor General report shows more than $5.2 billion was overpaid during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. J.B. Pritzker suggests the state
Illinois improperly paid out billions of unemployment tax dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of millions going to people who were either dead or in prison.