Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

The latest Unemployment Insurance (UI) Weekly Claims Report is now available from the US Department of Labor. The 4-week moving average of nationwide initial claims has decreased from the revised number of 382,500 last week to 379,000 this week.

The report dated 19 January 2012 reflects our unemployment numbers for week-ending 14 January 2012. During this week, 2,654 initial claims were filed in Utah compared to 3,265 the prior week. The numbers listed below are based on the 4-week moving average.

• 3,133 initial UI claims filed (increase of 1 from the prior week and decrease of 840 from same week in 2011).
• 25,426 continued UI weeks claimed (increase of 834 from the prior week and decrease of 4,398 from same week in 2011).
• 12,503 continued EUC08 weeks claimed (decrease of 144 from the prior week and decrease of 6,932 from same week in 2011).