# Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act; Violation Involving False Statement (per statement) — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act; Violation Involving False Statement (per statement), agency is DOJ; statutory authority is 31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(2); maximum penalty is 14,308, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** DOJ _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act; Violation Involving False Statement (per statement) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(2) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 14,308 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/31/3802> 31 U.S.C. 3802(a)(2) | Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act; Violation Involving False Statement (per statement) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/section-71.3#p-71.3(f)> 28 CFR 71.3(f) | 13,946 | 14,308

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-85/section-85.5

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/).