illinois employment benefits
The State of Illinois Employees' Deferred Compensation Plan is a supplemental retirement plan open to all full-time state employees. The d eferrals, together with any earnings, accumulate tax-d eferred until the employee terminates service, dies or incurs unforeseeable financial hardship. The funds are never taxed by the State of Illinois. Group Insurance Benefits and Programs This program provides insurance benefits (health, dental and life) for current and certain former elected state officials and the employees under their jurisdiction, employees of state agencies, boards, commissions and universities who work at least a 50% work schedule, as well as retirees and annuitants of these entities.