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90_HB3468
820 ILCS 405/406 from Ch. 48, par. 406
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an
individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance
benefits shall not be disqualified from receiving those
benefits for being a member of the Illinois National Guard or
of a United States Armed Forces reserve component.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act by
2 changing Section 406.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
6 changing Section 406 as follows:
7 (820 ILCS 405/406) (from Ch. 48, par. 406)
8 Sec. 406. Benefits after termination of military service;
9 guardspersons and reservists.
10 An individual otherwise eligible for benefits shall not
11 be disqualified from the receipt thereof by reason of one of
12 the following:
13 (1) Being entitled to readjustment allowances under
14 the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; provided,
15 however, that the filing of a valid claim in any benefit
16 year for readjustment allowance under said Act by a
17 claimant for any week shall, when followed by
18 authorization of payment thereof, be deemed an election
19 by such claimant to avail himself of his rights to
20 readjustment allowances under such Servicemen's
21 Readjustment Act throughout the benefit year in which
22 such week occurs in preference to those under this Act,
23 and shall disqualify such claimant for benefits until
24 whichever of the following events first occurs:
25 (A) the exhaustion of all his rights to
26 readjustment allowances under the Servicemen's
27 Readjustment Act of 1944; or
28 (B) the end of such benefit year.
29 (2) Being a member of the Illinois National Guard
30 or of a United States Armed Forces reserve component.
31 (Source: Laws 1951, p. 32.)