Category: Events

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Events/Treasurer Michael Frerichs

Treasurer Frerichs Discusses IL ABLE Accounts  

Listen to a recording of the special AARP Illinois Telephone Town Hall.

On December 6, AARP Illinois hosted Treasurer Michael Frerichs for a Telephone Town Hall about IL ABLE Accounts. The Treasurer discussed and answered listeners’ questions about IL ABLE Accounts and how grandparents, parents, siblings, and others can help loved ones with disabilities build a higher quality of life and protect their benefits with an IL ABLE tax-advantaged savings and investment account for people with disabilities.

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Treasurer Frerichs’s Visit to Gateway to Learning

Employment training is front and center.

Treasurer Frerichs recently visited Chicago’s Gateway to Learning (GTL) to observe participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they build job skills in food preparation, baking, and customer service in GTL’s commercial kitchen and Dorothy’s Can-Do Bakery & Cafe. While there, he heard first-hand from the program’s participants about their work and the impact of GTL’s programs.

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A group poses outside the lemonade stand at Open Door Rehabilitation Center in Sandwich, Illinois.
Events/Treasurer Michael Frerichs

A Great Day for Lemonade at the Sandwich Fair

Treasurer Frerichs visits the Open Door Rehabilitation Center’s Lemon Shake Up Stand.

A few raindrops didn’t get in the way of Treasurer Frerichs having a great time visiting the Open Door RehabilitationCenter’s (ODRC) Lemon Shakeup stand at the Sandwich Fair on September 8. While there, the Treasurer met with staff, volunteers, and clients of the disability services organization, some of whom own IL ABLE accounts. ODRC has a long history of serving fresh lemonade and pizza at the Sandwich Fair every year.

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Treasurer Michael Frerichs Visits the Ray Graham Association

In March, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs stopped by the Ray Graham Association to meet with some of the disability services organization’s staff, leadership, and clients who are also IL ABLE Account owners. It was a wonderful visit that provided an opportunity to talk about programs like IL ABLE and the importance of financial literacy.

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