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Published: Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:54 January 17, 2021 - Sacramento – Californians impacted by the historic COVID-19 pandemic are now starting to see the availability of up to 11 weeks of additional unemployment benefits from two federal programs. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) is automatically re-opening Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Assistance (PEUC) claims for those who had a balance remaining on those claims when the federal CARES Act expired on December 26. These claimants will NOT have to re-open their claims...

12/18/2020 3:02:17 AM GMT Initial unemployment claims rose for the fourth time in five weeks. 4-Week Moving Average in Initial Claims  The best way to spotlight trends in initial claims is to look at the 4-week moving average.  I added that chart for this week's report. The 4-week moving average trend lower bottomed two weeks ago at 740,000 and is now 812,500.  It rose for the second consecutive week. That hasn't happened since April 18. Initial State Unemployment Claims in 2020 2020-11-17  Initial unemployment claims are seasonally adjusted. Initial claims were in the 200,000 to 215,000 ...