SCDEW: Decrease in initial unemployment insurance claims last week
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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 July 11 – 17, there were 2,403 initial claims that were filed.
That’s a decrease of 87 initial claims filed from the previous week of July 4 – 10, where 2,490 claims were filed.
According to SC DEW, since March 15, 2020, 912,746 total initial unemployment insurance claims have been filed in the Palmetto State.
The department has paid out a total of more than $6.5 billion since March 15 of last year in a combination of the following:
- Regular state Unemployment Insurance benefits
- Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
- Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program
- Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program
- Extended Benefits
- Lost Wages Assistance program
The U.S. Department of Labor says the number of jobless claims increased last week to 419,000, the most in two months, from 368,000 the previous week.
