(1) Any person who has received, or attempted to receive, unemployment benefits by fraud or other improper means shall be denied job-seeking benefits from the date when such person received, or attempted to receive, unemployment benefits; provided, the same shall not apply to subsequent eligibility for job-seeking benefits that may be approved after the job-leaving related to the denied benefits. <Amended on May 26, 2020>
(2) Notwithstanding the main clause of paragraph (1), if fraud or other improper means constitute grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as filing a false report or failing to file a report pursuant to Article 47(1), job-seeking benefits shall be denied only for the relevant period subject to recognition of unemployment; provided, if such violations are committed on two or more occasions, the main clause of paragraph (1) shall apply. <Amended on May 26, 2020>
(3) Where a person has received, or attempted to receive, unemployment benefits by fraud or other improper means are denied job-seeking benefits, as prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2), such person shall be considered to have received such job-seeking benefits for the purposes of applying Article 50(3) and (4) thereto. <Amended on May 26, 2020>
(4) Where a person has received, or attempted to receive, unemployment benefits by fraud or other improper means are denied job-seeking benefits, as prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2), such person shall be considered to have received job-seeking benefits, including for the days for which benefits have been denied for the purposes of applying Article 63(2) thereto. <Amended on May 26, 2020>
(5) Notwithstanding the proviso of paragraph (1), where a person who has received or attempted to receive job-seeking benefits by fraud or other improper means had failed to receive job-seeking benefits three or more times pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (1) during 10 years calculated retroactively from the date such person received the job-seeking benefits or from the date he or she filed a report on the recognition of unemployment under Article 44, job-seeking benefits based on the new eligibility shall not be paid to him or her for up to three years from the date he or she received job-seeking benefits or from the date he or she filed a report on the recognition of unemployment by fraud or other improper means, as prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Added on Aug. 27, 2019>