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  • 2024-30963 — Civil Penalty Adjustments for 2025
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    Type:Notice
    Citation:89 FR 106607
    Reading Time:about 4 minutes

    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced new civil monetary penalties for 2025, reflecting inflation adjustments in compliance with federal law. From January 15, 2025, to January 14, 2026, the fines for violating NEH’s lobbying restrictions will range from $25,132 to $251,322, while penalties for program fraud will have a maximum of $14,308. These adjustments factor in a 2.598% increase in the Consumer Price Index from October 2023 to October 2024. All updated penalties apply to violations occurring after November 2, 2015.

    Simple Explanation

    The National Endowment for the Humanities is updating its fines for breaking rules about lobbying and telling lies on paperwork. The new fines will change because of how prices have gone up, and they will be in effect from January 2025 to January 2026.

  • 2021-00582 — Civil Penalty Adjustments for 2021
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    Type:Notice
    Citation:86 FR 3215
    Reading Time:about 2 minutes

    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced the adjusted maximum and minimum civil penalties for violating its New Restrictions on Lobbying. These adjustments are required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. The new penalties, effective from January 15, 2021, to January 14, 2022, range from a minimum of $20,731 to a maximum of $207,314. The adjustments ensure that the penalty amounts keep pace with inflation, as mandated by the 2015 Act.

    Simple Explanation

    The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) makes some fines bigger every year to keep up with money changes over time, just like how candy costs more now than it did in the past. If someone breaks their new rules about not spending money to try to change laws, they might have to pay a fine between about $21,000 and $207,000.