During the week of Sept. 20-26, a total of 233 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation. This is a decrease of 318 claims from the prior week’s total of 551.
A total of $1.2 million was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $757,000 in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $478,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $96,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
The Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund balance was $120.6 million on Sept. 27.
The latest number of continued state claims is 5,987 for the week ending Sept. 19, a decrease of 963 from the prior week’s total of 6,950. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
Benefits paid since March 16:
- Regular State = $82.6 million
- FPUC = $205.5 million
- PUA = $14.1 million
- PEUC = $1.8 million
Total = Approximately $304 million
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined last week to a still-high 837,000, evidence that the economy is struggling to sustain a tentative recovery that began this summer. The Labor Department’s report, released Thursday, suggests that companies are still cutting a historically high number of jobs, though the weekly numbers have become less reliable as states have increased their efforts to root out fraudulent claims and process earlier applications that have piled up. For example, California, which accounts for more than one-quarter of aid applications, simply provided the same figure it submitted the previous week. The state had said it would stop accepting jobless claims online so it could tackle a backlog of 600,000 claims.
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