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Continued claims down, but new claims rose slightly
Robyn Sidersky //February 3, 2022//
Continued claims down, but new claims rose slightly
Robyn Sidersky// February 3, 2022//
Virginia’s new unemployment claims rose just slightly for the week ending Jan. 29, the Virginia Unemployment Commission reported Thursday.
Virginians filed 2,157 claims for the last week of January, an increase of 217 initial claims from the previous week. Continued claims totaled 7,439, a decrease of 104 claims from the previous week and 89% lower than the 67,337 continued claims from the comparable week in 2021.
People receiving unemployment benefits through the VEC must file weekly unemployment claims in order to continue receiving benefits.
The majority of claimants who filed for benefits last week reported being in these industries: administrative and waste services, construction, retail trade, health care and social assistance, and professional and technical services.
Nationwide, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 238,000, a decrease of 23,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The advance number of actual initial claims, unadjusted, totaled 257,002 in the week ending Jan. 29, a decrease of 11,728 from the previous week.
