Arkansas Code Title 11, Chapter 10, Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally

• § 11-10-501 - Payment.
  (a) All benefits provided in this chapter shall be payable from the Unemployment Compensation Fund.(b) All benefits shall be paid through Department of Workforce...
• § 11-10-502 - Weekly Benefit Amount.
  (a) For initial claims filed on or after the first day of the calendar quarter following July 22, 2015, an insured worker's weekly benefit...
• § 11-10-503 - Weekly Benefits for Partial Unemployment.
  (a) Any insured worker who is unemployed in any week as defined in § 11-10-214 and who meets the eligibility requirements of §§ 11-10-507...
• § 11-10-504 - Maximum Benefits Payable.
  (a) For initial claims filed on or after the first day of the calendar quarter following July 22, 2015, the maximum potential benefits of...
• § 11-10-505 - Failure of Base-Period Employer to Respond.
  (a) (1) (A) A notice to the base-period employer shall be mailed or posted online, or both, promptly to each employer appearing on the...
• § 11-10-506 - Seasonal Employment and Benefit Rights.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, the term "seasonal industry" means an industry in which, because of the seasonal nature thereof, it is...
• § 11-10-507 - Eligibility -- Conditions.
  An insured worker shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the Director of the Department of Workforce Services...
• § 11-10-508 - Eligibility -- Labor Dispute -- Exceptions.
  (a) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, no individual may serve a waiting period or be paid benefits...
• § 11-10-509 - Eligibility -- Employees of Educational Institutions.
  (a) With respect to service performed in an instructional, research, or principal administrative capacity as an employee of an educational institution, benefits shall not...
• § 11-10-510 - Ineligibility -- Service in Sports or Athletics.
  Benefits shall not be paid to any individual on the basis of any services substantially all of which consist of participating in sports or...
• § 11-10-511 - Ineligibility -- Aliens -- Exception.
  (a) Benefits shall not be payable on the basis of services performed by an alien unless the alien is an individual who was lawfully...
• § 11-10-512 - Disqualification -- Satisfaction.
  (a) "Week of Unemployment" Defined. A "week of unemployment" as used in this section and §§ 11-10-514, 11-10-515, 11-10-517, and 11-10-519 means a week...
• § 11-10-513 - Disqualification -- Voluntarily Leaving Work.
  (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he or...
• § 11-10-514 - Disqualification -- Discharge for Misconduct.
  (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he or...
• § 11-10-515 - Disqualification -- Failure or Refusal to Apply for or Accept Suitable Work.
  (a) (1) (A) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if he...
• § 11-10-516 - Disqualification -- Refusal to Report After Layoff.
  (a) (1) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits if while on...
• § 11-10-517 - Disqualification -- Receipt of Other Remunerations.
  If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits for any week with respect...
• § 11-10-518 - Disqualification -- Certain Workers in Training Program Excepted.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an adversely affected worker covered by a certification under Subchapter A, Chapter 2, Title II of...
• § 11-10-519 - Disqualification -- Penalty for False Statement or Misrepresentation.
  (a) If so found by the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits: (1) If he or...
• § 11-10-520 - Claims -- Posting of Information by Employer.
  (a) Each employer shall post and maintain, in places readily accessible to individuals in the employer's employ, printed statements concerning benefit rights, claims for...
• § 11-10-521 - Claims -- Filing -- Notice to Last Employer.
  (a) Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with regulations the Director of the Department of Workforce Services prescribes.(b) (1) (A) A notice...
• § 11-10-522 - Claims -- Determination.
  (a) In General. (1) (A) A monetary determination upon a claim filed pursuant to § 11-10-521(a) shall be made promptly by the Director of...
• § 11-10-523 - Board of Review Created -- Administrative Appeal -- Claims.
  (a) (1) There is created a Board of Review which shall consist of three (3) members. (2) The members of the board shall be...
• § 11-10-524 - Claims -- Administrative Appeal -- Filing and Hearing.
  (a) (1) The claimant, the Director of the Department of Workforce Services, or any other party entitled to notice may appeal a determination made...
• § 11-10-525 - Claims -- Administrative Appeal -- Review by Board of Review.
  (a) An appeal filed by any party shall be allowed as of right if the determination was not affirmed by the appeal tribunal.(b) The...
• § 11-10-526 - Claims -- Administrative Appeal -- Procedure.
  (a) (1) The Board of Review, appeal tribunal, and special examiners shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or...
• § 11-10-527 - Claims -- Conclusiveness of Determinations and Decisions.
  (a) Except insofar as reconsideration of any determination is had under the provisions of § 11-10-522, any right, fact, or matter in issue, directly...
• § 11-10-528 - Claims -- Administrative Appeal -- Rule of Decision.
  (a) The final decisions of the Board of Review or of an appeal tribunal, and the principles of law declared by it in arriving...
• § 11-10-529 - Claims -- Decision of Board of Review -- Judicial Review.
  (a) (1) (A) Any party entitled to a decision of the Board of Review shall have thirty (30) calendar days from the date the...
• § 11-10-530 - Claims -- Administrative Appeal -- Representation.
  (a) The Director of the Department of Workforce Services shall be a party entitled to notice in any proceeding involving a claim for benefits...
• § 11-10-531 - Claims -- Payment of Benefits.
  (a) Benefits shall be paid promptly in accordance with an initial determination or redetermination that the benefits are due or in accordance with a...
• § 11-10-532 - Claims -- Recovery.
  (a) (1) If the Director of the Department of Workforce Services finds that a person knowingly has made a false statement or misrepresentation of...
• § 11-10-533 - Claims -- Investigation of Claims Filed by State Employees.
  (a) The Department of Workforce Services shall investigate all claims for benefits filed by state employees whether or not the employing state agency lodges...
• § 11-10-534 - Extended Benefits -- Definitions.
  As used in §§ 11-10-534 -- 11-10-543, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Additional benefits" means benefits payable to exhaustees by reason of...
• § 11-10-535 - Extended Benefits -- Effect of Provisions Relating to Regular Benefits.
  Except when the result would be inconsistent with the other provisions of this section, as provided in the regulations of the Director of the...
• § 11-10-536 - Extended Benefits -- Eligibility.
  An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in his or her eligibility period only if...
• § 11-10-537 - Extended Benefits -- Weekly Amount.
  The weekly extended benefit amount payable to an individual for a week of total unemployment in his or her eligibility period shall be an...
• § 11-10-538 - Extended Benefits -- Total Amount.
  (a) The total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to his or her applicable benefit year shall be the least...
• § 11-10-539 - Extended Benefits -- Period and Computations.
  (a) Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective in this state as a result of a state "on" indicator or an extended...
• § 11-10-540 - Extended Benefits -- Financing.
  (a) (1) (A) There is imposed an additional tax on every employer as defined in § 11-10-209 except an employer electing reimbursement under §...
• § 11-10-541 - Extended Benefits -- Overpayments.
  The Director of the Department of Workforce Services shall establish and recover extended benefit overpayments in the manner prescribed in § 11-10-532.
• § 11-10-542 - Extended Benefits -- Not Payable Under Interstate Benefit Payment Plan -- Exceptions.
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an individual shall not be eligible for extended benefits for any week if: (1)...
• § 11-10-543 - Extended Benefits -- Failure to Accept or Seek Suitable Work.
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 11-10-535, an individual shall be ineligible for payment of extended benefits for any week of unemployment in his...
• § 11-10-544 - Reciprocal Arrangements With State and Federal Agencies.
  (a) The Director of the Department of Workforce Services is authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other...

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