Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending March 15, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial
claims was 320,000, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week’s unrevised
figure of 315,000. The 4-week moving average was 327,000, a decrease of 3,500
from the previous week’s unrevised average of 330,500.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.2 percent
for the week ending March 8, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised rate.
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during
the week ending March 8 was 2,889,000, an increase of 41,000 from the preceding
week’s revised level of 2,848,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,897,250,
a decrease of 16,750 from the preceding week’s revised average of 2,914,000.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 285,316 in the week
ending March 15, a decrease of 16,995 from the previous week.
There were 300,951 initial claims in the comparable week in 2013.

The

advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.5 percent during the
week ending March 8, unchanged from the prior week.
The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs
totaled 3,247,226, a decrease of 30,757 from the preceding week. A year earlier,
the rate was 2.7 percent and the volume was 3,461,493.

The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week
ending March 1 was 3,350,028,
a decrease of 100,729
from the previous week.
There were 5,369,007 persons claiming benefits in all programs in the comparable week in 2013.

No state was triggered “on” the Extended Benefits program during the week ending
March 1.

Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled
1,057 in the week ending March 8, a decrease of 102 from the prior week. There
were 1,968 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 59 from the preceding week.

There were 19,115 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for
the week ending March 1, a decrease of 1,697 from the previous week. Newly discharged
veterans claiming benefits totaled 27,878, a decrease of 1,597 from the prior
week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending March 1 were in Alaska
(5.5), New Jersey (4.0), Rhode Island (4.0), Connecticut (3.9), Connecticut
(3.8), California (3.7), Montana (3.6), Wisconsin (3.5), Illinois (3.4), and
Massachusetts (3.4).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending March 8 were in
Pennsylvania (+1,961), Washington (+982), Wisconsin (+830), Arkansas (+745), and Illinois (+590),
while the largest decreases were in
New York (-17,548), Michigan (-1,971), California (-1,262), Connecticut (-1,079), and New Hampshire (-783).

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 –
Information on the EB program can be found here:
http://www.ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/extenben.asp
⁴ – 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
⁵
– 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
⁶ – Prior year total includes EUC claimants.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED
MARCH 8, 2014

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000

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