pandemic unemployment assistance

People who received Pandemic Unemployment Assistance have begun seeing emails from the state saying they were overpaid and have to return the money. NBC 5’s Lisa Parker reports.

What’s already been a financially challenging year for thousands of Illinois residents, just became even more complicated for some of them. Last week, emails started arriving in the inboxes of people who received pandemic unemployment assistance, or PUA, that they were overpaid and now have to pay that money back.     The letter from the Illinois Department of Employment...