Georgia Code
Article 5 - Contributions and Payments in Lieu of Contributions
§ 34-8-164. Applications for Adjustment or Refund

Applications for an adjustment or a refund of contributions, payments in lieu of contributions, or interest thereon, shall be submitted no later than three years from the date such amounts were assessed. Applications must be in writing. The Commissioner shall determine what amounts, if any, were erroneously collected. Adjustments shall be made against subsequent payments. Refunds will be issued, without interest thereon, when adjustments cannot be made. At the option of the Commissioner, the Commissioner may make any adjustments or refunds deemed appropriate for any amounts erroneously collected where no written request for a refund or an adjustment has been received, provided that such amounts were assessed within the last seven years. Amounts shall be refunded from the fund into which they were deposited.
History. Code 1981, § 34-8-164 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 830, § 3/HB 117; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 34/HB 323.
The 2015 amendment, effective May 5, 2015, substituted “an adjustment or a refund” for “adjustment or refund” near the beginning of the first sentence; and, in the sixth sentence, substituted “make any” for “initiate any”, inserted “for any amounts erroneously collected”, substituted “a refund or an adjustment” for “refund or adjustment”, and substituted “seven years” for “three years”.
The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “provided that such amounts” for “provided such amounts” near the end of the next to the last sentence.

Structure Georgia Code

Georgia Code

Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations

Chapter 8 - Employment Security

Article 5 - Contributions and Payments in Lieu of Contributions

§ 34-8-150. Payment of Contributions by Employers; Deferral of De Minimis Amounts

§ 34-8-151. Rate of Employer Contributions

§ 34-8-152. Standard Rate

§ 34-8-153. Liability of Succeeding Employer; Computation of Rate of Contributions; Transfers Between Employers With Substantially Common Ownership, Management, or Control; Transfers Made for the Purpose of Obtaining a Lower Rate of Contribution; Pen...

§ 34-8-154. Separate Accounts

§ 34-8-155. Benefit Experience; Variations From Standard Rate

§ 34-8-156. State-Wide Reserve Ratio; Reduction in Tax Rate

§ 34-8-157. Regular Benefits Paid to Be Charged Against Experience Rating Account

§ 34-8-158. Financing Benefits Paid Employees of Governmental Entities and Nonprofit Organizations

§ 34-8-159. Specific Provisions for Payments in Lieu of Contributions

§ 34-8-159.1. [Effective Until December 31, 2026] Installment Payments by Nonprofit Organizations for Finance Unemployment Benefits

§ 34-8-160. Surety Bond Required

§ 34-8-161. Group Accounts

§ 34-8-162. Establishment, Administration, and Contents of Cash Deposit Escrow Fund; Deposit in and Withdrawals From Fund

§ 34-8-163. Terminating Liability to Fund

§ 34-8-164. Applications for Adjustment or Refund

§ 34-8-165. Tax and Wage Reports; Penalty for Failure to File; Fraudulent Reports

§ 34-8-166. Interest on Delinquent Contribution Payments; Waiver; Reports

§ 34-8-167. Collection of Delinquent Contribution Payments Generally

§ 34-8-168. Authorized Collection Procedures; Application of Moneys Obtained; Procedure to Contest Execution; Attorney General to Represent Commissioner; Commissioner’s Rights, Authority, and Prerogatives

§ 34-8-169. Commissioner’s Authority to Contract With Outside Entities to Provide Debt Collection Services

§ 34-8-170. Commissioner Authorized to Estimate Contributions Due; Notice of Assessment; Jeopardy Assessment

§ 34-8-171. Injunction Against Employing Individuals if Reports or Payments Due

§ 34-8-172. Surety Bond Required of Employee Leasing Company

§ 34-8-173. Release or Subordination of Property Subject to Lien; Authority to Settle and Compromise Payment of Contributions; Annual Reports

§ 34-8-174. Payment of Contributions in Event of Legal Dissolution or Distribution

§ 34-8-175. Payment of Contributions When Employing Unit Sells or Transfers Business or Stock of Goods

§ 34-8-176. Applicability of Collection, Penalty, and Sanction Provisions to Public Employers

§ 34-8-177. Procedure for Collecting Delinquent Contribution Payments From Public Employers

§ 34-8-178. Voluntary Contributions by Employers