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What is the name of your state? Illinois In Illinois, unemployment insurance (UI) is administered by the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES). In theory, IDES allows applicants to apply for UI online, at the following website: https://benefits.ides.illinois.gov/Benefits/ I...

Actually, I want to follow up on what I said above. I called Medicaid twice. The first time I called, the worker told me that, for Medicaid, all contest winnings were considered assets, not income. However, I told her that Medicaid only takes *income* into account, not *assets*. If that's the...

Well, a person could have low income and could be living off a big savings account. A person can have $200000 in the bank (big assets), but can also have low income (due to low bank interest rates, little to no employment, etc.). For Illinois Medicaid, they take into account only income, NOT...

LAST year (2018), I won $5 in cash, and some non-cash prizes. THIS year (2019), I won the huge cash amount, and some non-cash prizes.

Well, I just got off the phone with Medicaid. I was told that only cash prizes should be reported to Medicaid. Gift cards, concert tickets, etc., should NOT be reported to Medicaid. Last year, I won about $5 in cash. The other prizes were gift cards, concert tickets, etc. This year, I have won...

On the original online application, these other sources were listed as Social Security, unemployment insurance, alimony, child support, bank interest, and so on. There was an extensive list. "Contest winnings" were not on the list.

When I applied for Medicaid last year, I had contest winnings, but I did not mention the contest winnings because Medicaid did not ask for them. I did list my contest winnings on my tax forms. Yet, Medicaid has never said anything about these winnings. Why would I be nicked for fraud if the...

It has occurred to me that my situation is similar to that of a person who makes a film, submits that film to a film festival, and wins a cash prize for Best Film while still retaining the rights to that film. That person could legitimately say that the cash prize is a contest prize and that the...

I think that the Advanced Tax Credit only applies to plans purchased in the Marketplace (www.healthcare.gov). Illinois Medicaid is NOT part of the Marketplace.

The company in question is based in the UK. The company told me that only US-based companies are required to send 1099 forms to the IRS, and that the company therefore did NOT send to the IRS a 1099 form.

Hello. This post is a bit long, but please read the whole thing. I live in Illinois, and I receive Illinois Medicaid. Specifically, I receive the ACA (Affordable Care Act) Adults program for low-income people. When I originally applied for the program a year ago, I was asked to list all sorts...

The other problem is that I did not explicitly call for any action. I did not ask that other employees quit or call the employer to complain or do anything. One person on the forum (not an employee) explicitly called for action when she said that the employees should confront the employer with a...

I've been on that forum for a long time. At the time of my posting, I knew that the forum's membership included Chicago event workers. I did not know which other Chicago event workers were going to be working that event with me. But I did know that there was a strong possibility that other...

As you said above, the NLRA protects employees from an employer's retaliation for working together to improve working conditions. Some people in this thread are implying that the working conditions that I complained about are not that bad and that, therefore, the NLRA will not protect workers...

As I previously mentioned, one of the participants in the online discussion that I started, was a former employee of the same company. She had worked for the same company, doing the same event, under the same conditions, but in a different city. Can it not be said that the former employee and I...