CHICAGO — State officials in Illinois say they’re cracking down on unemployment fraud.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security says that so far this year it has collected $26 million in federal tax refunds from people who knowingly collected unemployment insurance while working. The department says they’ve collected more than $120 million over the length of the 3-year-old program.

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