2010 Arkansas Code
Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 10 - Department of Workforce Services Law
Subchapter 5 - Benefits Generally
§ 11-10-536 - Extended benefits -- Eligibility.

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 the Director of the Arkansas Employment Security Department finds that with respect to that week:

(1) He or she is an exhaustee as defined in 11-10-534(8);

(2) He or she has satisfied the requirements of 11-10-534 -- 11-10-543 for the receipt of regular benefits that are applicable to individuals claiming extended benefits, including not being subject to a disqualification for the receipt of benefits; and

(3) (A) He or she was paid wages which exceeded forty (40) times his or her weekly benefit amount during the base period which established his or her last benefit year for the receipt of regular benefits; or

(B) He or she has one and one-half (11/2) times his or her insured wages in the calendar quarter of the base period in which his or her insured wages were the highest; or

(C) He or she has provided evidence of twenty (20) weeks of full-time insured employment in the base period that served as the basis for his or her extended benefits claim.

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