CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE OF PENALTIES FOR FALSE OR MISLEADING STATEMENTS (§ 60.2-637)

A. The Commission shall provide to each claimant notices of the sanctions to
which the claimant is subject as a consequence of providing false or misleading
statements to obtain unemployment benefits. The notices shall, at a minimum, (i)
identify the penalties and sanctions to which any person is liable as a result
of providing false or misleading statements to obtain benefits; (ii) inform the
claimant that making a false statement or representation knowing it to be false
or knowingly failing to disclose a material fact, with intent to obtain or
increase any benefit or other payment under this title, is punishable as a Class
1 misdemeanor; and (iii) provide a summary of all remedies available to the
Commission to collect overpayments made to a claimant as a result of his making
false or misleading statements to obtain benefits.

B. The notices required by subsection A shall be included with the written
statement advising claimants of their benefit rights and responsibilities that
is provided by the Commission to claimants following the filing of the initial
claim. In addition, the notices shall be provided to claimants at the time of
the filing of initial and weekly claims by the same medium, including telephone
or the Internet, that is used by the claimant to file his claim.

C. The failure of the claimant to receive any of the notices set out in
subsection A shall not constitute a defense to any criminal prosecution for
unemployment insurance fraud under § 60.2-632, to an administrative fraud
disqualification under subdivision 4 of § 60.2-618, or to any overpayment of
benefits under § 60.2-633 that the claimant would be required to repay as a
result of the fraudulent act or acts.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 740.