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 346,000 last week to 351,250 this week.

The report dated 18 July 2013 reflects our unemployment numbers for week-ending 6 July 2013. During this week, 1,976 initial claims were filed in Utah compared to 1,611 the prior week. The numbers listed below are based on the four-week moving average.

• 1,712 initial UI claims filed (increase of 78 from the prior week and decrease of 127 from same week in 2012).
• 13,938 continued UI weeks claimed (decrease of 54 from the prior week and decrease of 1,236 from same week in 2012).
• 2,901 continued EUC08 weeks claimed (decrease of 56 from the prior week and decrease of 4,487 from the same week in 2012).