Any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, either civil or criminal, which has been incurred in former statutes relating to unemployment compensation shall be held as remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings, and prosecutions for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability which are now pending, or which may hereafter be commenced within the time provided by law for the commencement of such actions, suits, proceedings, and prosecutions, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree, or order which has been or which may be entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings, or prosecutions.