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11-10-538. Extended benefits — Total amount.
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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 of the following amounts:
(1) Fifty percent (50%) of the total amount of regular benefits which are payable to him or her under this chapter in his or her applicable benefit year; or
(2) Thirteen (13) times his or her weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of §§ 11-10-534 — 11-10-543, or of any federal law, including the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Pub. L. No. 97-35, if the benefit year of an adversely affected worker covered by a certification under Subchapter A, Chapter 2, Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, ends within an extended benefit period, the number of weeks of extended benefits that the worker would, but for this section, be entitled to in that extended benefit period shall be reduced but not below zero by the number of weeks for which the worker was entitled, during such benefit year, to trade readjustment allowances under Part I, Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Title II of the Trade Act of 1974. For purposes of this section, the terms “benefit year” and “extended benefit period” shall have the same respective meanings given to them in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-10-538
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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 of the following amounts:
(1) Fifty percent (50%) of the total amount of regular benefits which are payable to him or her under this chapter in his or her applicable benefit year; or
(2) Thirteen (13) times his or her weekly benefit amount which was payable to him or her under this chapter for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of §§ 11-10-534 — 11-10-543, or of any federal law, including the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Pub. L. No. 97-35, if the benefit year of an adversely affected worker covered by a certification under Subchapter A, Chapter 2, Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, ends within an extended benefit period, the number of weeks of extended benefits that the worker would, but for this section, be entitled to in that extended benefit period shall be reduced but not below zero by the number of weeks for which the worker was entitled, during such benefit year, to trade readjustment allowances under Part I, Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Title II of the Trade Act of 1974. For purposes of this section, the terms “benefit year” and “extended benefit period” shall have the same respective meanings given to them in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
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11-10-534. Extended benefits — Definitions.
As used in this section and §§ 11-10-535 — 11-10-543, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) “Additional benefits” means benefits payable to exhaustees by reason of conditions of high unemployment or by reason of other special factors under the provisions of any state law;
(2) “Eligibility period” of an individual means the period consisting of the weeks in his or her benefit year which begin in an extended benefit period and, if his or her benefit year ends within that extended benefit period, any weeks thereafter which begin in that period;
(3) “Exhaustee” means an individual who, with respect to any week of unemployment in his or her eligibility period:
(A)(i) Has received, prior to that week, all of the regular benefits that were available to him or her under this chapter or any other state law, including dependents' allowances and benefits payable to federal civilian employees and ex-service personnel under 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq. in his or her current benefit year that includes that week.
(ii) For the purposes of this subdivision (3)(A), an individual shall be deemed to have received all of the regular benefits that were available to him or her although:
(a) As a result of a pending appeal with respect to wages that were not considered in the original monetary determination in his or her benefit year, he or she may subsequently be determined to be entitled to added regular benefits; or
(b) He or she may be entitled to regular benefits with respect to future weeks of unemployment, but benefits are not payable with respect to such week of unemployment by reason of the provisions of § 11-10-506 or the parallel provisions of any other state law;
(B) His or her benefit year having expired prior to
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-10-534
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 11-10-534. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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11-10-543. Extended benefits — Failure to accept or seek suitable work — Definition.
(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 or her eligibility period if the Director of the Division of Workforce Services finds that during that period:
(1) He or she failed to accept any offer of suitable work or failed to apply for any suitable work as defined under subsection (c) of this section to which he or she was referred by the director; or
(2) He or she failed to actively engage in seeking work as prescribed under subsection (f) of this section, unless he or she did not actively engage in seeking work because he or she was before any court of the United States or of any state pursuant to a lawfully issued summons to appear for jury duty. In that event, his or her entitlement to benefits shall be decided pursuant to the able and available requirements of § 11-10-507, without regard to the disqualification provisions otherwise applicable under subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Any individual who has been found ineligible for extended benefits by reason of the provision in subsection (a) of this section shall also be ineligible for extended benefits beginning with the first day of the week following the week in which the failure occurred and until he or she has been employed in each of four (4) subsequent weeks, whether or not consecutive, and has earned remuneration equal to not less than four (4) times his or her extended weekly benefit amount.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term “suitable work” means, with respect to any individual, any work that is within the individual's capabilities, provided that:
(1) The gross average weekly remuneration pay
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-10-543
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 11-10-543. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.