Unemployment Insurance Claims

Unemployment Insurance Claims
				Change	Change
	April 13	March 13	April 12	Mo Ago	Yr Ago

	Initial Claims
Total Initial Claims	11,678	11,941	11,189	-2.2%	4.4%

	Continued payments
No. of claimants	39,435	44,571	34,067	-11.5%	15.8%
Weeks paid	119,971	151,313	105,467	-20.7%	13.8%
Amount Paid	$39,212,314	$50,093,903	$32,666,848	-21.7%	20.0%

First Payment	5,688	6,970	6,008	-18.4%	-5.3%

Final Payment	3,463	3,322	3,570	4.2%	-3.0%

	EUC-8
No. of claimants	8,830	8,067	18,284	9.5%	-51.7%
Weeks paid	26,263	24,909	63,988	5.4%	-59.0%
Amount Paid	$7,306,854	$7,491,787	$18,824,975	-2.5%	-61.2%