Economic Growth and Anti-Fraud Programs Lead to Tax Cuts for Nearly 50 Percent of Employers in Illinois

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2014.  Unemployment insurance tax rates will fall or remain at the minimum for most employers in 2015 because the economy is outperforming expectations used in 2011 reform legislation that created tools to prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the temporary assistance program, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said today.

“Falling tax rates are a tangible result of a growing economy and real reforms that protect taxpayer money,” IDES Director Jay Rowell…