Unemployment benefits in Little Rock
Unemployment insurance in Little Rock is a Arkansas program, filed with the state agency rather than with Pulaski County. The weekly amount and the number of weeks come from state law, and both are below.
Where a Little Rock case goes
Claims from Little Rock go to the Arkansas unemployment agency, not to a Pulaski County office. Benefits are paid by the state under the formula below. Little Rock has about 204,774 residents (Census Bureau, 2024 estimate).
Open the full Arkansas unemployment calculator → — same formula, with every input, the statute (Ark. Code § 11-10-502; Arkansas DWS) and the date it was last checked.
Formula
your average quarterly wage over the base period ÷ 26 (total base-period wages ÷ 104).
Maximum
$451 · up to 12 weeks
Does Little Rock have its own rule?
No. Ark. Code § 11-10-502; Arkansas DWS applies across Arkansas, so a claim from Little Rock is decided by the same numbers as one filed anywhere else in the state. What changes locally is which workforce office you deal with in person and how busy it is — not the weekly amount or the number of weeks.
What the statute says
Ark. Code § 11-10-502; Arkansas DWS — Arkansas Division of Workforce Services. Arkansas cut regular benefits to 12 weeks in 2023 (16 only when unemployment is high) — among the shortest in the country — and caps the weekly amount at $451.
Last checked 2026-09-02. Read the source →
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