Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending March 8, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial
claims was 315,000, a decrease of 9,000 from the previous week’s revised
figure of 324,000. The 4-week moving average was 330,500, a decrease of 6,250
from the previous week’s revised average of 336,750.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.2 percent
for the week ending March 1, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised rate.
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during
the week ending March 1 was 2,855,000, a decrease of 48,000 from the preceding
week’s revised level of 2,903,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,915,750,
a decrease of 19,500 from the preceding week’s revised average of 2,935,250.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 302,218 in the week
ending March 8, a decrease of 15,614 from the previous week.
There were 317,526 initial claims in the comparable week in 2013.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.5 percent during the
week ending March 1, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.
The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs
totaled 3,285,703, a decrease of 90,028 from the preceding week. A year earlier,
the rate was 2.7 percent and the volume was 3,501,920.

The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week
ending February 22 was 3,450,757,
an increase of 12,282
from the previous week.
There were 5,619,860 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
February 22.

Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled
1,159 in the week ending March 1, an increase of 147 from the prior week. There
were 1,909 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 157 from the preceding week.

There were 20,812 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for
the week ending February 22, an increase of 401 from the previous week. Newly
discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 29,475, an increase of 670 from
the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending February 22 were
in Alaska (5.9), Rhode Island (4.4), New Jersey (4.3), Connecticut (4.1), Pennsylvania
(3.8), California (3.7), Illinois (3.7), Massachusetts (3.6), Montana (3.6),
and Wisconsin (3.5).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending March 1 were in
New York (+18,709), Florida (1,940), Illinois (+1,789), Texas (+1,245), and
New Hampshire (+849), while the largest decreases were in California (-5,765),
Georgia (-5,437), Massachusetts (-3,770), Pennsylvania (-2,086), and South Carolina
(-2,006).

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 –
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 1, 2014

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000

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