Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending January 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial
claims was 326,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s revised
figure of 328,000. The 4-week moving average was 335,000, a decrease of 13,500
from the previous week’s revised average of 348,500.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.3 percent
for the week ending January 4, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the
prior week’s unrevised rate. The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured
unemployment during the week ending January 4 was 3,030,000, an increase
of 174,000 from the preceding week’s revised level of 2,856,000. The 4-week
moving average was 2,908,750, an increase of 38,250 from the preceding week’s
revised average of 2,870,500.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 534,431 in the week
ending January 11, an increase of 51,190 from the previous week.
There were 556,621 initial claims in the comparable week in 2013.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.8 percent during the
week ending January 4, an increase of 0.3 percentage point from the prior week.
The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs
totaled 3,638,564, an increase of 354,387 from the preceding week. A year earlier,
the rate was 3.0 percent and the volume was 3,867,784.

The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending
December 28 was 4,703,499, an increase of 508,309 from the previous week. There
were 5,873,824 persons claiming benefits in all programs in the comparable week
in 2012.

No state was triggered “on” the Extended Benefits program during the week ending
December 28.

Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled
1,569 in the week ending January 4, an increase of 372 from the prior week. There
were 1,741 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 533 from the preceding week.

There were 22,811 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for
the week ending December 28, an increase of 2,103 from the previous week. Newly
discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 30,676, an increase of 2,111 from the prior week.

States reported 1,350,663 persons claiming Emergency Unemployment Compensation
(EUC) benefits for the week ending December 28, an increase of 63,626 from the
prior week. There were 2,059,438 persons claiming EUC in the comparable week
in 2012. EUC weekly claims include first, second, third, and fourth tier activity.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending December 28 were
in Alaska (6.2), New Jersey (4.0), Connecticut (3.8), Pennsylvania (3.6), Montana
(3.5), Wisconsin (3.5), Oregon (3.4), California (3.2), Illinois (3.2), Idaho
(3.1), Massachusetts (3.1), Michigan (3.1), Minnesota (3.1), New York (3.1),
and Rhode Island (3.1).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending January 4 were in
New York (+28,314), Georgia (+18,734), South Carolina (+9,632), Alabama (+6,782), and Texas (+6,638),
while the largest decreases were in
Michigan (-17,635), New Jersey (-6,882), Massachusetts (-5,485), Ohio (-5,482), and Iowa (-4,212).

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DATA FOR REGULAR STATE PROGRAMS

INITIAL CLAIMS FILED IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS (UNADJUSTED)

PERSONS CLAIMING UI BENEFITS IN ALL PROGRAMS (UNADJUSTED)

FOOTNOTES
SA – Seasonally Adjusted Data, NSA – Not
Seasonally Adjusted Data
¹ – Prior year is comparable to most
recent data.
² – Most recent week used covered employment of 130,938,360 as denominator.

³ – EUC weekly claims include first,
second, third, and fourth tier activity. Tier-specific EUC data can be found
here: http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/docs/persons.xls
⁴ –
Information on the EB program can be found here:
http://www.ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/extenben.asp
⁵ – Some states
maintain additional benefit programs for those claimants who exhaust regular,
extended and emergency benefits. Information on states that participate,
        and the
extent of benefits paid, can be found starting on page 4-5 of this link:
http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/pdf/uilawcompar/2010/special.pdf
⁶
– Information on STC/Worksharing can be found starting on page 4-9 of the
following link: http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/pdf/uilawcompar/2010/special.pdf

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED
JANUARY 4, 2014

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

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