# Penalty for knowingly presenting or causing to be presented a false or fraudulent specified claim under a grant, contract, or other agreement for which the Secretary provides funding — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty for knowingly presenting or causing to be presented a false or fraudulent specified claim under a grant, contract, or other agreement for which the Secretary provides funding, agency is HHS; statutory authority is 1320a-7a(o); maximum penalty is 12,482, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty for knowingly presenting or causing to be presented a false or fraudulent specified claim under a grant, contract, or other agreement for which the Secretary provides funding _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 1320a-7a(o) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 12,482 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 1320a-7a(o) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/section-1003.710#p-1003.710(a)(1)> 42 CFR 1003.710(a)(1) | OIG | Penalty for knowingly presenting or causing to be presented a false or fraudulent specified claim under a grant, contract, or other agreement for which the Secretary provides funding | 2024 | 12,166 | 12,482

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-A/part-102/section-102.3

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).