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AR Code § 11-9-905 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-905. Report to board of directors on financial condition of self-insurer

 The Workers' Compensation Commission shall report to the board of directors of each corporation when the commission has reasonable cause to believe that the payment of potential claims by an Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer is or may be jeopardized by the existing or potential financial condition of the self-insurer. The board of directors of the corporation which has the affected self-insurer as a member shall, based upon such information as is reasonably available, report to the commission upon all matters germane to the solvency, liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation of any workers' compensation self-insurer, and such reports shall not be deemed public documents under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., or any other law.
AR Code § 11-9-906 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-906. Money to be vested in corporation — Annual audit

 (a) Moneys collected by the Workers' Compensation Commission and disbursed to each corporation shall be vested in the corporation and shall not be deemed state property and shall not be subject to appropriation by the General Assembly.  (b) Each corporation shall annually submit to an audit by an independent certified public accountant, and a copy of the audit report shall be transmitted to the commission.
AR Code § 11-9-907 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-907. Investment — Use of funds

 The board of directors of each corporation shall direct the investment of moneys in each workers' compensation self-insurers guaranty fund, and all returns on the investments shall be retained in each fund. The moneys in each fund shall be used solely to compensate persons entitled to receive workers' compensation benefits from an Arkansas self-insurer which is unable to meet its workers' compensation benefits obligations and to defray the expenses of each fund.
AR Code § 11-9-908 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-908. Subrogation

 (a) Each corporation shall have full rights of subrogation against any source of payment or reimbursement for payments made by the corporation on behalf of an Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer.  (b) Each corporation shall have a right of recovery through the maintenance of an action against any third party, other than a coemployee, who is in any way responsible or liable for injury or death to a covered worker.
AR Code § 11-9-909 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-909. Action against self-insurer

 (a) Each corporation is also authorized to take all necessary action, including bringing an action at law or in equity, to seek any available relief as against any workers' compensation self-insurer, whether the self-insurer has paid all assessments levied by the Workers' Compensation Commission on behalf of the corporation.  (b) If a corporation is required to bring an action at law or in equity to enforce any obligations, rights, or duties as regards a workers' compensation self-insurer, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to that corporation.
AR Code § 11-9-910 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-910. Private sector participants

 All private sector participants in the Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurers' program may be members of one (1) of the corporations acting as guaranty funds, and the Workers' Compensation Commission may revoke any such self-insurer's authority to act as a workers' compensation self-insurer if the self-insurer fails to maintain membership in the applicable corporation or fails to pay the assessments levied by the commission under this subchapter.
AR Code § 11-9-911 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 9 - Workers' Compensation Private Sector Self-Insurer Guaranty Funds|§ 11-9-911. Termination of self-insurer status — Liability

 Any person or entity whose workers' compensation self-insurer status is terminated shall thereafter be subject to no further assessments by the Workers' Compensation Commission, but shall remain liable for all assessments due prior to the date of termination.
AR Code § 11-9-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 10 - Revision of Workers' Compensation Laws|§ 11-9-1001. Legislative declaration

 The Seventy-Ninth General Assembly realizes that the Arkansas workers' compensation statutes must be revised and amended from time to time. Unfortunately, many of the changes made by this act were necessary because administrative law judges, the Workers' Compensation Commission, and the Arkansas courts have continually broadened the scope and eroded the purpose of the workers' compensation statutes of this state. The Seventy-Ninth General Assembly intends to restate that the major and controlling purpose of workers' compensation is to pay timely temporary and permanent disability benefits to all legitimately injured workers that suffer an injury or disease arising out of and in the course of their employment, to pay reasonable and necessary medical expenses resulting therefrom, and then to return the worker to the work force. When, and if, the workers' compensation statutes of this state need to be changed, the General Assembly acknowledges its responsibility to do so. It is the specific intent of the Seventy-Ninth General Assembly to repeal, annul, and hold for naught all prior opinions or decisions of any administrative law judge, the Workers' Compensation Commission, or courts of this state contrary to or in conflict with any provision in this act. In the future, if such things as the statute of limitations, the standard of review by the Workers' Compensation Commission or courts, the extent to which any physical condition, injury, or disease should be excluded from or added to coverage by the law, or the scope of the workers' compensation statutes need to be liberalized, broadened, or narrowed, those things shall be addressed by the General Assembly and should not be done by administrative law judges, the Workers' Compensation Commission, or the courts.
AR Code § 11-10-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-101. Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Division of Workforce Services Law”.
AR Code § 11-10-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-102. Policy

 As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows:   (1) Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Involuntary unemployment is a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the General Assembly to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which may fall with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and his or her family. The achievement of social security requires protection against this great hazard of our economic life.  (2) This can be accomplished by encouraging employers to provide more stable employment and by the systematic accumulation of funds during periods of employment from which benefits may be paid for periods of unemployment, thus maintaining purchasing power and limiting the serious social consequences of poor relief assistance.  (3) The General Assembly, therefore, declares that in its considered judgment the public good and the general welfare of the citizens of this state require the enactment of this measure, under the police power of the state, for the compulsory setting aside of unemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own.
AR Code § 11-10-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-103. Intent

 The General Assembly declares its intention to provide for the carrying out of the purposes of this chapter in cooperation with the appropriate agencies of other states and of the federal government as part of a nationwide employment security program to secure for this state and its citizens the grants and privileges available thereunder.
AR Code § 11-10-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-104. Construction

 This chapter shall be construed to accomplish its purpose to promote employment security by increasing opportunities for placement through the maintenance of a system of public employment offices and by providing through accumulation of reserves for the payment of compensation to individuals who are involuntarily unemployed.
AR Code § 11-10-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-105. Legislative power to amend and repeal — Vested rights restricted

 (a)  (1) The General Assembly reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter or of any law heretofore enacted involving any employment security law.  (2) There shall be no vested private right of any kind against such amendment or repeal nor shall there be vested any right accruing except as specifically expressed in this chapter or heretofore.    (b) All rights, privileges, or immunities incurred by this chapter or by acts done pursuant thereto shall exist subject to the power of the General Assembly to amend or repeal this chapter or acts at any time.
AR Code § 11-10-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-107. Protection of rights and benefits — Waiver of rights void — Discrimination, obstruction, and employee payment prohibited

 (a) Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute his or her rights to benefits or any other rights under this chapter shall be void.  (b) Any agreements by an individual in the employ of any person or employing unit to pay all or any portion of an employer's contributions required under this chapter from the employer shall be void.  (c) No employer shall directly or indirectly make, require, or accept any deduction from wages to finance the employer's contributions required from him or her, require or accept any waiver of any right hereunder by any individual in his or her employ, discriminate in regard to the hiring or tenure or work on any term or condition of work of any individual on account of his or her claiming benefits under this chapter, or in any manner obstruct or impede the filing of claims for benefits.  (d) Any employer or officer or agent of an employer who violates any provisions of this section shall, for each offense, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or be imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
AR Code § 11-10-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-108. Protection of rights and benefits — Limitation of fees

 (a) No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees or costs of any kind in any proceeding under this chapter by the Board of Review, the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, or his or her or its representatives, or by any court or any officer thereof, except that, if the court determines that the proceedings for judicial review have been instituted or continued without reasonable grounds, it may assess costs against the claimant or employer instituting or continuing the proceedings.  (b)  (1) Any individual claiming benefits in any proceeding before the director or the board or his or her or its representatives or a court may be represented by counsel or other duly authorized agent.  (2) No counsel or agents shall either charge or receive an aggregate amount of more than five hundred dollars ($500) for services rendered at the administrative appeal levels before the appeal tribunal or the board.    (c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for each offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
AR Code § 11-10-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-109. Protection of rights and benefits — Assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of benefits prohibited

 (a) Except as elsewhere provided in this section and § 11-10-110, any assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of any right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under this chapter shall be void.  (b) Such rights to benefits shall be exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or any other remedy whatsoever provided for the collection of debt.  (c) Benefits received by any individual, so long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, shall be exempt from any remedy whatsoever for the collection of all debts except debts incurred for necessities furnished to such individual or his or her spouse or dependents during the time when that individual was unemployed.  (d) Any waiver of any exemption provided for in this section and § 11-10-110 shall be void.  (e) Benefits shall be subject to tax levies issued by the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with 26 U.S.C. § 6331(h) provided that an agreement is entered into between the Internal Revenue Service and the Division of Workforce Services and approved by the United States Department of Labor that provides for the payment of all administrative costs associated with processing the tax levies.
AR Code § 11-10-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 11-10-111. Protection of rights and benefits — Exception for withholding food stamp overages — Definition

 (a)  (1) An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall at the time of filing the claim disclose whether or not he or she owes an uncollected overissuance, as defined in section 13(c)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, of food stamp coupons.  (2) The Director of the Division of Workforce Services shall notify the state food stamp agency enforcing the obligation of any individual who discloses that he or she owes a food stamp overage obligation and who is determined to be eligible for unemployment compensation.    (b) The director shall deduct and withhold from any unemployment compensation payable to an individual who owes an uncollected overissuance:  (1) The amount specified by the individual to the director to be deducted and withheld under this section;  (2) The amount, if any, determined pursuant to an agreement submitted to the state food stamp agency under section 13(c)(3)(A) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977; or  (3) Any amount otherwise required to be deducted and withheld from unemployment compensation pursuant to section 13(c)(3)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 1997.    (c) Any amount deducted and withheld under this section shall be paid by the director to the food stamp program administered by the Division of County Operations.  (d) Any amount deducted and withheld under subsection (b) of this section shall for all purposes be treated as if it were paid to the individual as unemployment compensation and paid by the individual to the Department of Human Services as repayment of the individual's uncollected food stamp overissuance.  (e) For purposes of this section, the term “unemployment compensation” means any compensation payable under this act, including amounts payable by the director pursuant to an agreement under any federal law providing for compensation, assistance, or allowances with respect to unemployment.  (f) This section applies only after an agreement has been made for reimbursement by the department for the administrative costs incurred by the director under this section which are attributable to the repayment of uncollected food stamp overissuances.
AR Code § 11-10-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-201. Base period

 (a)  (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “base period” means the first four (4) of the last five (5) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of the benefit year.  (2) For claims involving wages of several states, the base period shall be that which is applicable under the unemployment insurance laws of the paying state.    (b)  (1) If an individual lacks sufficient base-period wages because of a job-related injury for which he or she received workers' compensation, an extended base period will be substituted for the current base period on a quarter-by-quarter basis as needed to establish a valid claim upon written application by the claimant.  (2) “Extended base period” means the four (4) quarters prior to the claimant's base period. These four (4) quarters may be substituted for base period quarters on a quarter-by-quarter basis to establish a valid claim regardless of whether the wages have been used to establish a prior claim, except that any wages earned that would render the Division of Workforce Services out of compliance with applicable federal law will be excluded if used in a prior claim.  (3) Benefits paid on the basis of an extended base period, which would not otherwise be payable, shall be noncharged.    (c)  (1) Beginning with initial claims filed on July 1, 2009, and thereafter, if an individual lacks sufficient base-period wages, an alternate base period shall be substituted for the current base period.  (2) “Alternate base period” means the four (4) completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of that benefit year.
AR Code § 11-10-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-202. Regular benefits

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “regular benefits” means benefits payable to an individual under this chapter or under any other state law, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 8501 et seq., other than extended benefits and additional benefits.
AR Code § 11-10-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-203. Benefit year

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “benefit year” with respect to any individual means the twelve-consecutive-month period beginning the first day of the calendar quarter in which he or she first files a valid claim for benefits in accordance with § 11-10-521. For claims involving the wages of several states, the benefit year shall be that which is applicable under the unemployment insurance law of the paying state.
AR Code § 11-10-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-204. Contributions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:   (1) “Contributions” means money payments required by this chapter to be made into the Unemployment Compensation Fund by any employing unit on account of having individuals in its employ; and  (2) “Payments in lieu of contributions” means the money payments made pursuant to the provisions of § 11-10-713.
AR Code § 11-10-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-205. Calendar quarter

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “calendar quarter” means the period of three (3) consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31.
AR Code § 11-10-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-206. Director

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “director” means the Director of the Division of Workforce Services.
AR Code § 11-10-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-207. Rules

 All rules previously promulgated under this chapter shall be enforceable by the Director of the Division of Workforce Services and shall remain in full force and effect unless or until such time as amended by the director.
AR Code § 11-10-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-211. Employment office

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “employment office” means a free public employment office or branch thereof operated by this or any other state as a part of a state-controlled system of public employment offices or by a federal agency charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation program or free public employment offices.
AR Code § 11-10-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-212. Unemployment Compensation Fund

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “fund” means the Unemployment Compensation Fund established by this chapter.
AR Code § 11-10-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 10 - Division of Workforce Services Law|Subchapter 2 - Definitions|§ 11-10-213. State

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, “state” includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.