If benefits are approved and issued and job and anti-retaliation protections have thus attached, and then fraud is proven:

1. A. Any benefits issued will be treated as an overpayment; and
2. B. Job and anti-retaliation protections will not apply.

Authority: Labor and Employment Article, §§8.3-101, 403, 701, 702, and 902, et seq., Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: March 30, 2026 (53:6 Md. R. 290)