BOISE - Idaho's continued unemployment claims – the number of people who requested an unemployment benefit payment and have already filed an initial claim – continued to fall the week ending September 19, dropping 7% from the previous week to 10,708. This marks the 20th consecutive week of declines.
The four-week moving average for continued claims fell 10% – from 13,842 for the week ending September 12 to 12,416 for the week ending September 19.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits totaled 3,437 for the week ending September 19, dropping by 6%, or 235 claims, from the previous week. The four-week moving average declined by 2.4% to 3,650 new initial claims per week.
The Department of Labor paid out $7.8 million in claims during the week ending September 19, down from $15 million for the week ending September 12. Regular state benefit payouts were $2.3 million, the same amount as the previous week, but 2.9 times higher than the same week in 2019. Of the CARES Act programs, Pandemic Extended Unemployment Compensation payments (PEUC) paid out $1.9 million, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) paid out $2.4 million and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) paid out just $700,000.
Total benefit payments to laid-off Idahoans attributed to COVID-19 reached $868.8 million. Regular state unemployment insurance benefits made up $196.8 million of the total, with PEUC benefits at $28.6 million, PUA benefits at $64.7 million and FPUC payments at $536.5 million and LWA benefits at $42.2 million.
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