02/27/2026
🚨 IF YOUR REFUND GOT SNATCHED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT READ THIS 🚨
This for Illinois AND Indiana 👀
If you owed unemployment from 2020, pandemic time, or ANY overpayment — the state can OFFSET your refund.
That means they take it automatically.
BUT HERE’S WHAT Y’ALL NOT KNOWING 👇🏽
You can CALL unemployment and request a HARDSHIP WAIVER if paying that money back is causing you financial hardship.
Don’t just sit there mad at the refund being gone 😭
Pick up the phone.
If approved they may:
• Reduce what you owe
• Stop future offsets
• Possibly adjust the balance
But you HAVE to request it.
