Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

Note: Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Seasonal Factors and revised seasonal
factors and historical series for CY 2009-2013 for both initial claims and
continued claims will be made available April 3, 2014, with the release of
the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Weekly Claims News Release.

In addition, beginning April 10, 2014, the UI Weekly Claims News Release
will be issued under a revised (.pdf) format. The new version of the release
will include graphics and tables for additional information and ease of use.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending March 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial
claims was 311,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week’s revised
figure of 321,000. The 4-week moving average was 317,750, a decrease of 9,500
from the previous week’s revised average of 327,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.2
percent for the week ending March 15, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised
rate. The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment
during the week ending March 15 was 2,823,000, a decrease of 53,000 from the
preceding week’s revised level of 2,876,000. The 4-week moving average was
2,862,500, a decrease of 31,500 from the preceding week’s revised average
of 2,894,000.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 273,411 in the week
ending March 22, a decrease of 12,559 from the previous week.
There were 315,620 initial claims in the comparable week in 2013.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.4 percent during the
week ending March 15, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.
The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs
totaled 3,144,812, a decrease of 88,295 from the preceding week. A year earlier,
the rate was 2.6 percent and the volume was 3,402,007.

The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week
ending March 8 was 3,306,871,
a decrease of 43,157
from the previous week.
There were 5,455,779 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 8.

Initial claims for UI benefits filed by former Federal civilian employees totaled
1,010 in the week ending March 15, a decrease of 47 from the prior week. There
were 1,827 initial claims filed by newly discharged veterans, a decrease of 147 from the preceding week.

There were 19,359 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for
the week ending March 8, an increase of 244 from the previous week. Newly
discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 28,354, an increase of 476 from
the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending March 8 were in
Alaska (5.5), New Jersey (4.1), Rhode Island (3.9), Connecticut (3.8), Pennsylvania
(3.7), California (3.6), Illinois (3.6), Montana (3.4), Massachusetts (3.3),
and Wisconsin (3.3).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending March 15 were in
California (+3,189), Nebraska (+1,044), Virginia (+513), Missouri (+492), and Tennessee (+474),
while the largest decreases were in
Pennsylvania (-3,166), Illinois (-2,320), New York (-2,155), Texas (-1,373), and Wisconsin (-1,055).

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 15, 2014

STATES
WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

STATES
WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

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individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-693-4676. TDD Message Phone:
1-800-326-2577. News releases from the U.S. Department of Labor are accessible
on the Internet at: http://www.dol.gov/ and  http://www.oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp.