More than 500,000 Illinois residents have so far benefited from the program, with average debt relief of about $1,200 a person, according to the governor’s office.

When Pritzker announced the program's first round of debt erasure in November 2024, he said $1 billion in debt elimination would take years. It actually took 15 months.

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