During the week of April 11-17, a total of 268 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the Department of Labor and Regulation. This is a decrease of 22 claims from the prior week’s total of 290.
The latest number of continued state claims is 3,064 for the week ending April 10, a decrease of 74 from the prior week’s total of 3,138. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
For week ending April 17, a total of $723,000 was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $1.1 million in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $137,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $300,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
The Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund balance was $151.0 million on April 18.
Benefits paid since March 16, 2020:
- Regular State = $111.5 million
- FPUC = $230.7 million
- PUA = $20.1 million
- PEUC = $8.4 million
Total = Approximately $370.8 million
Nationally……
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell last week to 547,000, a new low since the pandemic struck and a further encouraging sign that layoffs are slowing on the strength of an improving job market. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications declined 39,000 from a revised 586,000 a week earlier. Weekly jobless claims are down sharply from a peak of 900,000 in early January. But they’re still far above the roughly 250,000 level that prevailed before the viral outbreak ripped through the economy in March of last year.
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