News Release

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending July 5, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 439,000, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 434,000. The 4-week moving average was 426,750, an increase of 1,000 from the previous week's revised average of 425,750.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.0 percent for the week ending June 28, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week's revised rate of 2.9 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 28 was 3,818,000, an increase of 87,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 3,731,000. The 4-week moving average was 3,740,750, an increase of 9,750 from the preceding week's revised average of 3,731,000.
 

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 479,909 in the week ending July 5, an increase of 86,265 from the previous week. There were 456,716 initial claims in the comparable week in 2002.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.7 percent during the week ending June 28, unchanged from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 3,363,971, a decrease of 30,920 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 2.5 percent and the volume was 3,218,111.
   

Extended benefits were available in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington during the week ending June 21.

53 states reported that 854,406 individuals filed continued claims under the Federal Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) program during the week ending June 21.

Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,773 in the week ending June 28, a decrease of 26 from the prior week. There were 1,197 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, a decrease of 13 from the preceding week.

There were 14,350 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending June 21, a decrease of 199 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 16,226, a decrease of 930 from the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending June 21 were in Puerto Rico (4.6 percent), Oregon (4.4), Alaska (4.3), Pennsylvania (3.9), California (3.6), Washington (3.6), Arkansas (3.2), Connecticut (3.2), Illinois (3.1), Massachusetts (3.1), and New Jersey (3.1).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending June 28 were in New Jersey (+6,416), Massachusetts (+5,340), Kentucky (+4,791), North Carolina (+3,150), and New York (+2,549), while the largest decreases were in Pennsylvania (-4,056), California (-2,029), Florida (-1,976), Illinois (-1,613), and Oregon (-1,101).

FOOTNOTES
SA - Seasonally Adjusted Data
NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted Data
¹ - Prior year is comparable to most recent data.
² - Most recent week used covered employment of 126,632,357 as denominator.
³ - Prior year level based on the reports of 51 states.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED 06/28/2003 

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000