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Any payment to a claimant by an employer or insurer which is later determined by the Commission to have been procured by the employee or statutory dependent under \u00a7 65.2-515 by fraud, misrepresentation, or failure to report any incarceration, return to employment, increase in earnings, remarriage or change in his status as a full-time student may be recovered from the claimant or statutory dependent by the employer or insurer either by way of credit against future compensation payments due the claimant or statutory dependent, or by action at law against the claimant or statutory dependent. 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This law was first created in 1985. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 453 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1985 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1991, chapter 355; in 1992, chapter 466; in 1996, chapter 570<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":57817,"section_number":"58.1-3","catch_line":"Secrecy of information; penalties","order_by":null,"url":"\/58.1-3\/"},{"id":85307,"section_number":"65.2-502","catch_line":"Compensation for partial incapacity; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participants","order_by":null,"url":"\/65.2-502\/"},{"id":81274,"section_number":"65.2-708","catch_line":"Review of award on change in condition","order_by":null,"url":"\/65.2-708\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":57788,"section_number":"65.2-515","catch_line":"Persons conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent","order_by":null,"url":"\/65.2-515\/"}],"permalink":{"id":276643,"object_type":"law","relational_id":80256,"identifier":"65.2-712","token":"65.2\/7\/65.2-712","url":"\/65.2-712\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/65.2-712\/","token":"65.2\/7\/65.2-712","dublin_core":{"Title":"Reporting incarcerations, change in earnings, remarriage, change in student status; recovery of payments procured by fraud, misrepresentation, or unreported change in condition","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 65.2-712","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

So long as an employee or statutory dependent pursuant to \u00a7 65.2-515<\/a> receives payment of compensation under this title, any such person shall have a duty immediately to disclose to the employer<\/span>, when the employer<\/span> is self-insured, or insurer in all other cases, any incarceration, return to employment, increase in his earnings, remarriage or change in his status as a full-time student. Any payment to a claimant by an employer<\/span> or insurer which is later determined by the Commission<\/span> to have been procured by the employee or statutory dependent under \u00a7 65.2-515<\/a> by fraud<\/span>, misrepresentation, or failure to report any incarceration, return to employment, increase in earnings, remarriage or change in his status as a full-time student may be recovered from the claimant or statutory dependent by the employer<\/span> or insurer either by way of credit against future compensation payments due the claimant or statutory dependent, or by action at law<\/span> against the claimant or statutory dependent. The Commission<\/span> shall provide for notification to the statutory dependent of his obligation under this section.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREPORTING INCARCERATIONS, CHANGE IN EARNINGS, REMARRIAGE, CHANGE IN STUDENT\nSTATUS; RECOVERY OF PAYMENTS PROCURED BY FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION, OR UNREPORTED\nCHANGE IN CONDITION (\u00a7 65.2-712)\n\nSo long as an employee or statutory dependent pursuant to \u00a7 65.2-515 receives\npayment of compensation under this title, any such person shall have a duty\nimmediately to disclose to the employer, when the employer is self-insured, or\ninsurer in all other cases, any incarceration, return to employment, increase in\nhis earnings, remarriage or change in his status as a full-time student. Any\npayment to a claimant by an employer or insurer which is later determined by the\nCommission to have been procured by the employee or statutory dependent under \u00a7\n65.2-515 by fraud, misrepresentation, or failure to report any incarceration,\nreturn to employment, increase in earnings, remarriage or change in his status\nas a full-time student may be recovered from the claimant or statutory dependent\nby the employer or insurer either by way of credit against future compensation\npayments due the claimant or statutory dependent, or by action at law against\nthe claimant or statutory dependent. The Commission shall provide for\nnotification to the statutory dependent of his obligation under this section.\n\nHISTORY: 1985, c. 453, \u00a7 65.1-100.3; 1991, c. 355; 1992, c. 466; 1996, c. 570.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}