AGENDA - Interagency Working Group on Poverty Elimination Fourth Quarter Meeting, December 17, 2025

Interagency Working Group on Poverty Elimination and Economic Security

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

1:00-2:30 PM

7/f Executive Conference Room, IDHS Building, 401 S Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60607

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*Members of the public are invited to attend. For those who would like to make public comment, we request that those comments be submitted in advance of the meeting to the Poverty Commission Administrator at DHS.PovertyCommission@illinois.gov by 8:30 AM on December 17, 2025.

Agenda:

  1. Welcome/Roll Call - Administrator Priya Khatkhate
  2. Public Comment - subject to written comment in advance
  3. Approval of Meeting Minutes: September 17, 2025
  4. Housekeeping
    1. Mandatory State trainings
    2. Subcommittee participation
    3. Adoption of Rules of Procedure
  5. Special Presentation - Multi-State Litigation in Response to Various Federal Policy Shifts, Cara Hendrickson, Executive Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Illinois Attorney General
  6. Special Presentation - Resumption of Statewide Work Requirements for Able Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDs), Jill Outland, Associate Director, Office of Policy and Program Integrity, Illinois Department of Human Services
  7. Posting of IWGP FY25 Report on member agencies' websites - complete
  8. New Business
  9. Next meetings - 2nd Tuesday of March, June, September and December at 11AM-12:30PM
  10. Adjournment