Illinois Wage Assignment Act

Sections covered

• 740 ILCS 170/.01Short Title
• 740 ILCS 170/1Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/10No employer may discharge or suspend any employee by reason of the fact that his earnings have been subjected to wage demands on his employer for any indebtedness
• 740 ILCS 170/11Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/2Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/2.1A demand shall be in the following form: "Demand is hereby made upon an assignment of salary, wages, commissions or other compensation for services, executed by
• 740 ILCS 170/2.2Forms; notice of intent to assign wages; revocation
• 740 ILCS 170/3No assignment of wages shall become invalid by reason of cessation of employment but shall be valid and collectible against any future employer of the wage-earner within a period of 2 years from the date of its execution
• 740 ILCS 170/4Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/4.1Revocation of wage assignment
• 740 ILCS 170/4.2Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/4.3Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/5A discharge in bankruptcy shall be a valid defense to any suit brought upon a wage assignment executed by the bankrupt prior to the adjudication in bankruptcy; no assignment of wages shall be valid after three years from the date of its execution and shall be void after such period of three years
• 740 ILCS 170/6Civil Liabilities › 740 ILCS 170 — Illinois Wage Assignment Act
• 740 ILCS 170/7If any of the provisions of this Act are unconstitutional it is the intent of the General Assembly that so far as possible the remaining provisions of the Act be given effect
• 740 ILCS 170/8Nothing herein contained shall be construed as making invalid any assignment of wages executed prior to July 1, 1935
• 740 ILCS 170/9All wages, salary amounts or other compensation paid by the State, any unit of local government or school district to any of its employees are exempt and not subject to collection under a wage assignment