New and cumulative jobless claims by state: Number of workers either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval during the week ending October 10

Regular UI Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Other programs
State Most recent continued claims: 10/03/2020 Most recent week initial claims: 10/10/2020 Most recent continued claims: 09/26/2020 Total initial claims – most recent 2 weeks Most recent continued claims: 09/26/2020 Total receiving UI or waiting for approval*
Alabama 22,596 6,474 43,057 1,854 71,959 145,940
Alaska 19,885 6,166 10,297 551 9,520 46,419
Arizona 147,979 10,004 425,024 74,519 30,360 687,886
Arkansas 27,383 5,065 63,960 7,176 24,717 128,301
California 2,802,145 226,179 3,493,940 199,648 829,071 7,550,983
Colorado 125,369 6,216 64,741 4,841 47,299 248,466
Connecticut 119,622 4,740 50,939 1,334 46,027 222,662
Delaware 22,889 1,907 7,898 242 6,881 39,817
District of Columbia 47,575 1,804 14,778 391 10,496 75,044
Florida 250,710 44,795 – 58,657 5,794 359,956
Georgia 410,739 53,400 288,665 8,997 1,113 762,914
Hawaii 93,251 5,128 114,537 6,955 562 220,433
Idaho 7,466 3,288 11,118 69 6,432 28,373
Illinois 428,991 46,072 120,585 14,663 97,266 707,577
Indiana 115,108 28,864 175,287 24,066 25,496 368,821
Iowa 46,577 4,644 12,733 1,608 31,316 96,878
Kansas 52,033 15,083 175,511 17,453 19,172 279,252
Kentucky 79,459 5,769 49,879 6,516 448 142,071
Louisiana 155,586 12,630 134,049 15,218 9,315 326,798
Maine 18,732 1,444 15,903 1,583 15,544 53,206
Maryland 103,990 11,634 182,908 9,512 20,962 329,006
Massachusetts 261,763 39,063 468,488 22,469 124,049 915,832
Michigan 270,553 12,906 637,737 29,319 135,442 1,085,957
Minnesota 140,236 9,408 43,872 3 63,771 257,290
Mississippi 51,805 3,197 28,872 3,574 16,128 103,576
Missouri 57,544 9,542 59,342 1,310 57,169 184,907
Montana 16,982 2,721 36,264 2,638 5,361 63,966
Nebraska 15,272 3,134 34,705 3,667 4,751 61,529
Nevada 147,266 10,886 94,559 17,936 55,665 326,312
New Hampshire 29,901 2,136 15,469 655 4,328 52,489
New Jersey 247,071 28,055 386,957 23,648 136,584 822,315
New Mexico 62,826 6,394 38,854 2,215 17,212 127,501
New York 724,499 68,670 1,225,825 59,348 492,297 2,570,639
North Carolina 101,302 19,080 166,596 17,180 230,024 534,182
North Dakota 10,727 1,139 5,849 1,755 5,399 24,869
Ohio 198,797 19,211 419,625 50,180 74,587 762,400
Oklahoma 70,832 4,840 15,087 1,660 17,714 110,133
Oregon 125,601 4,152 114,360 8,954 38,809 291,876
Pennsylvania 401,195 19,515 772,797 42,491 128,422 1,364,420
Rhode Island 22,234 2,944 46,452 12,355 18,906 102,891
South Carolina 66,104 4,884 58,429 7,362 72,973 209,752
South Dakota 5,389 382 2,792 84 513 9,160
Tennessee 95,188 10,145 156,388 8,282 60,110 330,113
Texas 721,223 43,435 286,831 12,227 48,190 1,111,906
Utah 21,235 2,744 5,194 1,448 9,927 40,548
Vermont 16,011 505 8,955 81 5,757 31,309
Virginia 180,478 12,005 207,497 6,054 86,979 493,013
Washington 239,346 24,611 107,991 7,388 69,149 448,485
West Virginia 33,452 1,971 37,109 7,520 9,236 89,288
Wisconsin 109,792 14,830 42,788 5,231 43,508 216,149
Wyoming 6,763 843 2,250 269 2,352 12,477

*Caution: This is a substantial overestimate. For one thing, initial claims for regular state UI and PUA should be nonoverlapping—that is how DOL has directed agencies to report them—but some individuals are erroneously being counted as being in both programs. Also, some states are including retroactive payments in their continuing PUA claims, which would also lead to double counting. Regular state UI continued claims are for the week ending October 3; PEUC continued claims are for the week ending September 26; regular state UI initial claims are for the week ending October 10. PUA continued claims are for the week ending September 26; PUA initial claims are for the weeks ending October 3 and October 10. “Other programs” are continued claims in other programs for the week ending September 26. A full list of programs can be found in the bottom panel of the table on page 4 at this link: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf.

Source: U.S. Employment and Training Administration, Initial Claims [ICSA], retrieved from the Department of Labor (DOL), https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf and https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp, October 15, 2020.

View the underlying data on epi.org.