Text of section effective on October 01, 2013
(a) If, by wilful nondisclosure or misrepresentation of a material fact, whether the nondisclosure or misrepresentation is made by the person or for the person by another, a person receives a benefit when a condition imposed by this subtitle for the person's qualifying for the benefit is not fulfilled or the person is disqualified from receiving the benefit, the person forfeits the:
- (1) benefit received; and
- (2) rights to benefits that remain in the benefit year in which the nondisclosure or misrepresentation occurred.
- (b) If a person attempts to obtain or increase benefits by a nondisclosure or misrepresentation as provided by Subsection (a), the commission may cancel the person's right to benefits that remain in the benefit year in which the nondisclosure or misrepresentation occurred.
- (c) A forfeiture or cancellation under this section is effective only after the person has been afforded an opportunity for a fair hearing before the commission or its duly designated representative.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.