https://www.wbez.org/stories/glitch-in-new-illinois-unemployment-system-made-private-information-public/22b1dd10-4d79-4ddd-b14c-799ecdaa3ca6
By Dan Mihalopoulos & Tony Arnold
WBEZ.com
May 16, 2020
The state of Illinois’ highly touted new system for processing unemployment
benefits claims for gig workers mistakenly “made some private information
publicly available,” according to a spokeswoman for Gov. JB Pritzker.
The acknowledgement from the governor’s office came late Saturday, after WBEZ
reviewed a screenshot from the website of the Illinois Department of Employment
Security showing the names of claimants, their Social Security numbers and
other information about their cases for benefits from the state.
The private information belonged to applicants for federally funded benefits to
independent contractors who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
Congress and President Donald Trump approved funding for the program – known as
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA – in late March, and the state’s new
computer system for processing such claims launched on Monday, with Pritzker
announcing that 44,000 jobless workers applied using the system on the first
day.
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