Overview

• Starting in late June and continuing through summer 2025, about 600,000 Illinois residents will receive checks totaling $45 million from the Enhanced Money Match program
• Most of the payments are $50 or less and some individuals will receive multiple checks based on separate entitlements
• The initiative is part of the broader I-Cash system that verifies names and addresses against state records and issues payments without a formal claim process
• Since its launch in 2018, Enhanced Money Match has returned roughly $870 million to 870,000 people across Illinois
• The program covers only single-person cash claims and excludes multi-party holdings, stocks, escrow accounts and safe-deposit contents while Illinois still holds over $5 billion in unclaimed property under a legal mandate