This is a quick reference page to provide reporters with basic facts and figures about agency programs and services. Detailed information is available via links to other HFS Web pages.
HFS ensures that children receive the financial support they are entitled to from absent parents and provides medical coverage to children, parents or relatives caring for children, pregnant women, veterans, seniors, person who are blind, and person with disablities.
HFS Media Contacts
Kelly Jakubek
Room 5-500
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-814-8198
E-mail: kelly.jakubek@illinois.gov
HFS News Releases
HFS Budget Information
Child Support Services
The total number of child support cases for Fiscal Year 2012 is 499,494.
Total child support collections are $1,393,229,341 for Fiscal Year 2012.
The Illinois State Disbursement Unit (SDU), created to qualify for federal child support funds, collected a record $836,106,540 in the last year, for IV-D cases (current and former cash or medical assistance cases, as well as others who have requested child support services).
The SDU collected $557,122,801 for non-IV-D cases, (those whose child support is handled privately, generally through private attorneys).
Medical Programs
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ Medical Assistance Programs provide comprehensive health benefits to a monthly average of about 2.7 million persons, and partial benefits to another 290,000 persons, who meet income and other eligibility requirements, including pregnant women and infants, children and teenagers, seniors and people with disabilities (living both in the community and in nursing homes), and people struggling with one-time catastrophic medical bills.
All Kids
FamilyCare
Health Benefits for Workers with Disabilities (HBWD)
Supportive Living Program (SLF)
Illinois Healthy Women (IHW)
Office of Inspector General (OIG)
The Office of Inspector General is maintained within HFS, but functions as a separate, independent entity reporting directly to the governor’s office.