{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-9-21","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 34-9-21","heading":"Penalty for receiving unentitled to benefits.","body":"Any employee who, with the intent to defraud, receives and retains any income benefits to which he or she is not entitled shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than $1,000.00 nor more than $10,000.00 or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.","path":["TITLE 34 Labor and Industrial Relations","CHAPTER 9 Workers’ Compensation","Article 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.34.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"4ee1cb8ce6c0e533ffc317eedfe73b4e9e0e847bbaf3ecdd92899425372d8219","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-9-20","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-34-9-22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}