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Depends on flat spending, taxes and fed funding

✓State Employee and Retiree Health Care Savings – the administration has negotiated over $900 million in health care cost savings. ✓ Estimated $650 million in collectively- bargained cost savings with employees through FY23. ✓ An additional $260 million in savings achieved through negotiated insurance rates and contract terms with providers. —- Behind the fancy savings language, I’m reading more delayed payments for health providers to state employees and retirees. Possibly higher co-pays or increased insurance payments by employees / retirees. And expectations of clawbacks in th...

Gov. JB Pritzker outlined a $41.6 billion budget proposal Wednesday that would hold most state agencies at flat funding levels but which relies heavily on

WBGZ Radio 1/22/2021 | By Kevin Bessler - Illinois Radio Network The Illinois Board of Higher Education has approved a $2.1 billion budget request at a time when the state faces a multi-billion dollar budget gap. The 2022 fiscal year budget proposal would reflect a 4.5 percent increase for general funds, excluding the State University Retirement System. The board said it aims to close equity gaps in higher education outcomes. “This budget recommendation reflects a down payment on the strategic plan, which will focus on equity, affordability and attainment,” IBHE Chairman John Atkinson sa...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Board of High Education has approved a $2.1 billion budget request, a 4.5 percent at a time when the state faces a multi-billion dollar budget gap. The 2022 fiscal year budget proposal...