SC DEW: 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 March 7 – 13, there were 2,752 initial insurance claims for unemployment that were filed.
That’s a decrease of 2,394 initial claims filed from the previous week of February 28 – March 6, where 5,146 claims were filed.
On their intrastate map showing initial unemployment insurance claims by counties, Greenville County had the highest number of claims in the state with 275.
According to the department, since March 15, 2020, 862,113 total initial unemployment insurance claims have been filed in the Palmetto State.
The department has paid out a total of more than $5.5 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 Americans applying for unemployment benefits went up to 770,000 for last week.
Officials say that’s an increase of 45,000 from the week prior.
According to the department, insured unemployment was 4,124,000 for the week ending on March 6, which is a decrease of 18,000.
