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Initial unemployment insurance claims drop for week ending August 22

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending August 22, 2020 dropped to 12,529 from the week ending August 15, 2020 total of 14,365. For a comparison, during the week ending August 24, 2019, 1,972 initial claims were filed.

The four-week moving average of initial claims decreased to 12,789 from the previous week’s average of 14,352.

The unemployment insurance continued claims for the week ending August 22, 2020 decreased to 250,720 from the week ending August 15, 2020 total of 255,068. The continued claims were above the comparable figure of 16,141 for the week ending August 24, 2019.

The four-week moving average of continued claims decreased to 283,307 from the previous week’s average of 301,717.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) has countless tools both in person and online to help claimants file and process their claims. This is in addition to the resources found at the agency’s 62 local offices statewide, opportunities discovered at job fairs, training programs, apprenticeship opportunities and numerous other LWC services.

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