Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending February 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial
claims was 348,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week’s revised
figure of 334,000. The 4-week moving average was 338,250, unchanged from the
previous week’s revised average.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.3 percent
for the week ending February 15, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised rate.
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during
the week ending February 15 was 2,964,000, an increase of 8,000 from the preceding
week’s revised level of 2,956,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,954,750,
an increase of 4,000 from the preceding week’s revised average of 2,950,750.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 310,816 in the week
ending February 22, a decrease of 10,598 from the previous week.
There were 310,389 initial claims in the comparable week in 2013.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.6 percent during the
week ending February 15, unchanged from the prior week.
The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs
totaled 3,384,598, a decrease of 26,636 from the preceding week. A year earlier,
the rate was 2.7 percent and the volume was 3,536,462.

The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week
ending February 8 was 3,486,060,
a decrease of 26,388
from the previous week.
There were 5,764,168 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 8.

Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled
1,178 in the week ending February 15, a decrease of 21 from the prior week. There
were 1,676 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, a decrease of 439 from the preceding week.

There were 22,308 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for
the week ending February 8, an increase of 776 from the previous week. Newly
discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 29,570, a decrease of 100 from
the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending February 8 were in
Alaska (6.1), New Jersey (4.2), Rhode Island (4.2), Pennsylvania (3.9), Connecticut
(3.8), Illinois (3.8), Montana (3.8), California (3.7), Wisconsin (3.7), and
West Virginia (3.6).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending February 15 were in
California (+5,832), Michigan (+2,129), Oregon (+1,574), Missouri (+1,045), and Nevada (+196),
while the largest decreases were in
Georgia (-7,759), Pennsylvania (-3,677), Wisconsin (-3,227), Illinois (-2,780), and North Carolina (-2,644).

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 EUCclaimants.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED
FEBRUARY 15, 2014

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000