In defense of IL's system, the law was very clearly written to say ONLINE MCPP applicants got provisional. Everyone was saying ONLINE applicants, stop applying by mail. People continued applying by mail and then setting out to learn about it all.
People who were applying by mail after 8/28 only have themselves to blame. Read the laws before you sign up for them. And I do mean the law, not blogs about the laws unless those blogs are from lawyers.
Not in defense of IL's system. IDPH should've been open with how it was going to work from 8/28. Instead they outright lied to people constantly and about everything. If the truth means nobody was going to apply until their Dr certification was about to run out and they'd get swamped with 12/1 applications, so be it. They shouldn't be taking 90 days to issue a card, that's their own fault. Once they knew it would backdate to 12-1 they should've said that in big red letters on their websites.
The way I see it IDPH was screwing people over to save themselves from being swamped because of their own in-compassionate ways of issuing cards so they could be sure they'd always have at least 3 months worth of cards to approve to avoid layoffs.
It sounds like IDPH is working to help post 12/1 applicants by mail. If you previously applied by mail after 12/1, apply online you'll get PA, and they're not supposed to cash your check when they see you are already in the system. (This is per Rep. Cassidy and what she worked out with IDPH.)
LOL, IL and your money, good luck with that. It might be worth a stop payment fee on that one.
Sorry if any of this was already posted but infusion day and I'm going down for another emergency nap. But on the bright side I got my super post infusion tolerance back so the last couple weeks of bad times with mmj was probably my low drug levels. I was ready to call it quits Wednesday and Thursday.