Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims September 20 2012

Today’s jobless claims report indicated that both initial and continued unemployment claims declined slightly as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained just below the closely watched 400K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 3,000 to 382,000 claims from a revised 385,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 32,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.6%.

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored “extended” unemployment benefit programs (the “extended benefits” and “EUC 2008” from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.

Currently there are some 2.16 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 2.93 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.09 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims May 31 2012

Today’s jobless claims report showed a notable increase to initial unemployment claims and a decline to continued unemployment claims while seasonally adjusted initial claims approached the closely watched 400K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” declined to 383,000 claims from last week’s revised 373,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 36,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.6%.

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored “extended” unemployment benefit programs (the “extended benefits” and “EUC 2008” from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.

Currently there are some 2.93 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.12 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.05 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims April 19 2012

Today’s jobless claims report showed a declined to initial unemployment claims and an increased to continued claims while seasonally adjusted initial claims continued to trend well below the closely watched 400K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” declined to 386,000 claims from last week’s revised 388,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 26,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.6%.

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored “extended” unemployment benefit programs (the “extended benefits” and “EUC 2008” from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.

Currently there are some 3.20 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.47 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.67 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims January 26 2012

Today’s jobless claims report showed notable increases to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted remained below the closely watched 400K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment increased 21,000 to 377,000 claims from last week’s revised 356,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 88,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.8%.

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored “extended” unemployment benefit programs (the “extended benefits” and “EUC 2008” from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.

Currently there are some 3.41 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 4.11 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 7.53 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.