Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

The latest Unemployment Insurance (UI) Weekly Claims Report is now available from the US Department of Labor. The four-week moving average of nationwide initial claims has increased from the revised number of 345,750 last week to 348,250 this week.

The report dated 20 June 2013 reflects our unemployment numbers for week-ending 8 June 2013. During this week, 1,666 initial claims were filed in Utah compared to 1,865 the prior week. The numbers listed below are based on the four-week moving average.

• 1,729 initial UI claims filed (increase of 27 from the prior week and decrease of 91 from same week in 2012).
• 14,307 continued UI weeks claimed (decrease of 127 from the prior week and decrease of 1,426 from same week in 2012).
• 3,165 continued EUC08 weeks claimed (decrease of 178 from the prior week and decrease of 5,382 from the same week in 2012).