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 364,750 last week to 365,500 this week.

The report dated 18 October 2012 reflects our unemployment numbers for week-ending 6 October 2012. During this week, 1,960 initial claims were filed in Utah compared to 1,820 the prior week. The numbers listed below are based on the four-week moving average.

• 1,727 initial UI claims filed (increase of 76 from the prior week and decrease of 225 from same week in 2011).
• 12,576 continued UI weeks claimed (decrease of 56 from the prior week and decrease of 5,251 from same week in 2011).
• 5,102 continued EUC08 weeks claimed (increase of 181 from the prior week and decrease of 7,282 from the same week in 2011).