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(iv) No provision of this subsection shall be construed to prevent

or prohibit the voluntary repayment of compensation by such

person or the maintenance of records of overpayments by the

department.

(2) The claimant and other affected parties shall be notified in writing

of the department's determination to deduct any sum from future

compensation under this section, and such determination shall be

subject to appeal in the manner provided in this act for appeals

from determinations of compensation.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection, any person

who has received or employer who has made a back wage payment

pursuant to an award of a labor relations board arbitrator or the like

without deduction for unemployment compensation benefits received

during the period to which such wages are allocated shall notify the

department immediately of the receipt or payment of such back

wage award. The recipient of such back wage award, made without

deduction for unemployment compensation benefits received during

the period, shall be liable to pay into the Unemployment

Compensation Fund an amount equal to the amount of such

unemployment compensation benefits received.

((b) amended Oct. 23, 2013, P.L.637, No.75)

(c) Any person who provides to the department a check which is dishonored

shall be charged a penalty of one hundred per centum (100%) of the

face value of the check, up to a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100)

with a minimum of ten dollars ($10) per occurrence for all dishonored

checks or such other amounts as shall be determined by the secretary and

published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin as a notice under 45 Pa.C.S. § 725(a)(3)

(relating to additional contents of Pennsylvania Bulletin).

((c) added July 21, 1983, P.L.68, No.30)

Compiler's Note: Section 18(8) of Act 60 of 2012, which amended subsec. (a), provided that the amendment of subsec. (a) shall apply to benefit years that begin on or after the effective date of section 804. Section 805. For the enforcement of this act or any rule and regulation issued under the authority thereof the department is hereby empowered, and it shall be its duty, to conduct such periodic spot checks and investigations as will disclose with reasonable