---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8507"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8507"
heading: "False statements and misrepresentations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8507"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 85 — Unemployment Compensation"
  - "Subchapter I — Employees Generally"
---

# §8507. False statements and misrepresentations

- (a) If a [State](/usc/5/8501.md?p=6) [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1), the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) of Labor, or a [court](/usc/5/8401.md?p=7) of competent jurisdiction finds that an individual—
  - (1) knowingly has made, or caused to be made by another, a false statement or representation of a material fact, or knowingly has failed, or caused another to fail, to disclose a material fact; and
  - (2) as a result of that action has received an amount as [compensation](/usc/5/8501.md?p=4) under this subchapter to which he was not entitled;

  the individual shall repay the amount to the [State](/usc/5/8501.md?p=6) [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) or the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2). Instead of requiring repayment under this subsection, the [State](/usc/5/8501.md?p=6) [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) or the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) may recover the amount by deductions from [compensation](/usc/5/8501.md?p=4) payable to the individual under this subchapter during the 2-year period after the date of the finding. A finding by a [State](/usc/5/8501.md?p=6) [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) or the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) may be made only after an opportunity for a fair hearing, subject to such further review as may be appropriate under sections [8502(d)](/usc/5/8502.md?p=d) and [8503(c)](/usc/5/8503.md) of this title.

- (b) An amount repaid under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall be—
  - (1) deposited in the [fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) from which payment was made, if the repayment was to a [State](/usc/5/8501.md?p=6) [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1); or
  - (2) returned to the Treasury of the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18) and credited to the current applicable appropriation, [fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6), or [account](/usc/5/8401.md?p=1) from which payment was made, if the repayment was to the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 590.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 42 U.S.C. 1368(b). | Sept. 1, 1954, ch. 1212, § 4(a), “Sec. 1508(b)”, 68 Stat. 1135. |

In subsection (a), the words “as the case may be”, “be liable to”, and “of any amount” are omitted as unnecessary.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.