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SC DEW: Decrease in initial unemployment insurance claims last week
Dec 17, 2020 9:22 AM EST
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SOUTH CAROLINA (WOLO) – The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce reported a decrease in initial unemployment insurance claims for last week.
According to the department, during the week of December 6 – 12, there were 3,723 initial insurance claims for unemployment that were filed.
That’s a decrease of 1,386 claims filed from the previous week of November 29 – December 5, where 5,109 claims were filed.
On their intrastate map showing initial unemployment insurance claims by counties, Horry County had the highest number of claims in the state with 434.
SC DEW says since March 15, 792,758 total initial claims have been filed in the Palmetto State.
Iowa saw a decrease in new and continuing weekly unemployment claims the week of Dec. 6.
New claims dropped from 10,112 to 6,949, and continuing claims fell, from 42,382 to 38,748.
Construction was the largest source of claims with 1,379, followed by manufacturing with 869, and self-employed and independent contractors with 805.
Administrative, support, waste management and remediation services had 598 claims, and accommodation and food services with 524 claims.
About 58.3 percent of claims were not related to the coronavirus pandemic, the Iowa Workforce Development said.
The claims resulted in $10.9 million in standard unemployment benefits, $7.7 million in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation payments and $4.5 million in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation expired at the end of July, but Iowans received $1.4 million in retroactive payments this past week.
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