# Penalty for knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit funds or property with respect to grant, contract, or other agreement, or knowingly conceals or improperly avoids or decreases any such obligation, per day — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Penalty for knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit funds or property with respect to grant, contract, or other agreement, or knowingly conceals or improperly avoids or decreases any such obligation, per day, agency is HHS; maximum penalty is 13,037, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** HHS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Penalty for knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit funds or property with respect to grant, contract, or other agreement, or knowingly conceals or improperly avoids or decreases any such obligation, per day _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 13,037 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | | | Penalty for knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to an obligation to pay or transmit funds or property with respect to grant, contract, or other agreement, or knowingly conceals or improperly avoids or decreases any such obligation, per day | 2024 | 12,707 | 13,037

## 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/).