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LWC: Initial unemployment insurance claims rise for week ending September 26

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Posted at 10:44 AM, Oct 02, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-02 11:44:19-04

The Louisiana Workforce Commission says that initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending September 26, 2020 rose to 16,296 from the week ending September 19, 2020.

That is an increase of 1,454 initial claims from the previous weeks total of 14,842.

For a comparison, LWC says that during the week ending September 28, 2019, 1,612 initial claims were filed.

The four-week moving average of initial claims increased to 17,972 from the previous week’s average of 17,945. The unemployment insurance continued claims for the week ending September 26, 2020 decreased to 214,860 from the week ending September 19, 2020 total of 238,724, according to LWC.

The continued claims were above the comparable figure of 14,054 for the week ending September 28, 2019. The four-week moving average of continued claims decreased to 240,003 from the previous week’s average of 248,691.

In person and online tools are available through the Louisiana Workforce Commission to help claimants file and process their claims.

In addition, the agency says resources can be found at their 62 local offices statewide. Those resources include job fair opportunities, training programs, apprenticeship opportunities and numerous other LWC services.

To view unemployment insurance claims data for prior weeks, click here and select Labor Market Information, scroll down the LMI page and select Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims Data.

Those interested in viewing initial claims by industry and by parish can click here.

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