Hunter
04/02/20
The number of initial claims for unemployment in the state of Iowa last week were higher than the number of continuing weekly unemployment claims.
Iowa Workforce Development reports a total of 58,453 new claims, compared to 54,461 continuing claims.
Accomodation and Food Service accounted for a third of all claims, followed by Health Care and Social Assistance, Manufacturing, Retail Trade and Other Services. The majority of the claims are COVID-19 related.
IWD says they’re getting an unprecedented amount of calls with wait times of 15 minutes or longer, but say they’re answering about 80 percent of incoming calls.
Additional data on unemployment claims for the week ending March 27th are available at a link on this story at 1630kcjj.com.
www.iowalmi.gov/unemployment-insurance-statistics
