Arkansas hunts for deadbeats May 13, 20212:31 pm Arkansas Workforce Services, which has thousands of legitimate applicants for unemployment who’ve been languishing for months for verification checks, promises to be diligent about sniffing about those trying to get a check they don’t deserve. Advertisement It urges them to report anyone not searching diligently enough for a job while receiving the state’s meager regular unemployment, which ends after 16 weeks. The governor has ordered an end to federal benefits 10 weeks early because of employers’ belief that a worker shortage is tied to $300 weekly federal benefits rather than crummy pay and benefits and working conditions; a desire for better work; illness; fear of illness; lack of child care and other reasons. From the letter: