Benefits limited to extent funds are available

Benefits shall be deemed due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent that funds are available therefor to the credit of the Unemployment Compensation Fund. Neither the state nor the Commissioner shall be liable for any 205 34-8-93 amount in excess of such sums. (Code 1981, § 34-8-91, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1.) 34-8-92. Disposition of fines, penalties, and interest collected; amounts collected pursuant to Code Section 34-8-255 to be returned to Unemployment Compensation Fund. (a) All fines, penalties, and interest collected under the terms of this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury. The General Assembly shall be authorized to appropriate to the Commissioner all such funds so raised and deposited in the state treasury, which shall be payable upon requisition of the Commissioner. Such funds are to be used for the replacement of funds, as provided in Code Section 34-8-82, and for incidental expenses incurred in the administration of this chapter for which funds are not granted by the federal government through the United States secretary of labor or other agencies. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Code section, any amounts collected pursuant to Code Section 34-8-255 shall be returned to the Unemployment Compensation Fund to be used exclusively for the purposes of this chapter as required by federal law. (Code 1981, § 34-8-92, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 34; Ga. L. 2014, p. 730, § 1/HB 714.)