JB Pritzker's positioning of Illinois as a sanctuary state, a welcoming port for immigrants from across the globe, hit the ...

The Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program, or HBIA, was launched in 2021. It covers qualifying individuals aged 42-64.

Two state-run health care programs that extend Medicaid-like coverage to noncitizens may have provided significant financial benefits for Illinois ... solely due to their immigration status.

A new study details the economic lift of Illinois' programs meant ... for people who are excluded from federal health insurance programs due to their immigration status. With enrollment and ...

Immigration advocates and people who received word that they could lose their state-funded health ... Seniors program that also began in that year, will continue, according to the Illinois ...

Advocates are trying to save an Illinois program that provides health insurance to immigrants without legal status before the budget season wraps up in Springfield.

A recent Illinois ... in the program for senior citizens were not over 65 years old. Pritzker acknowledged inaccurate estimates and explained that it was due to changing immigration statuses.

Both programs were intended to provide health coverage to a segment of the population that was ineligible for coverage under Medicaid solely because of their immigration status. The programs cover ...

SPRINGFIELD — State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to more than 30,000 non-U.S. citizens in Illinois ...