# IRCA; Paperwork violation (per relevant individual) — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For IRCA; Paperwork violation (per relevant individual), agency is DOJ; statutory authority is 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(5); maximum penalty is 2,861; minimum penalty is 288,, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** DOJ _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** IRCA; Paperwork violation (per relevant individual) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(5) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 2,861 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Minimum penalty:** 288, _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/8/1324a> 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(5) | IRCA; Paperwork violation (per relevant individual) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/section-68.52#p-68.52(c)(5)> 28 CFR 68.52(c)(5) | Min 281, Max 2,789 | Min 288, Max 2,861

## 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/).