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New Jobless Claims Remain Steady as California Endures Unemployment Filing Pause
California experienced a continued rise in unemployment insurance claims last week, according to a report from the U.S. Labor Department on Thursday. An estimated 230,400 California workers filed for unemployment benefits during the week ending Sept. 19. That is up from the 226,000 claims filed in the week ending Sept. 12 and pushes the overall total to more than 8.8 million workers seeking benefits since the COVID-19 shutdowns hit companies earlier this spring.
California experienced the largest drop in initial claims for the week ending September 12, at 17,400, ahead of Texas, which reported a drop of 15,905 initial claims. But California’s unemployment rate of 15.7% only trails Hawaii (19.8%) as the highest in the U.S.
California’s EDD has stopped accepting new unemployment claims until Oct. 5 in an effort to prevent fraud and reduce a backlog of nearly 600,000 Californians who have applied for unemployment but haven’t yet been processed. EDD must also work through an estimated one million cases where individuals received payments but subsequently modified their claim and are awaiting resolution.
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