Ark. Code Ann. § 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 subsequent decision by any appellate tribunal, board, or court that the benefits are due.

(b) The pendency of an appeal shall not of itself suspend or stay the payment of benefits once they have been determined to be due.

(c) Benefits determined to be due shall remain payable during any appeal until the determination has been modified or reversed by a subsequent decision or redetermination, in which case payment of benefits shall be suspended until such time as benefits might later be determined or decided to be due.