Unemployment claims up for week, down for year

For the week of June 12, 2010, there were 694 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance, an increase of 32 from the week before. Altogether 9,722 new and continuing claims were filed, a decrease of 643 from a week ago and 4,505 fewer than a year earlier. The Department also processed 3,150 First Tier claims for benefits under Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08), 321 fewer than a week ago. In addition, there were 2,093 Second Tier claims for benefits processed under the EUC08 program, which is a decrease of 113 from the week before. The Unemployment Weekly Report can be found at: http://www.vtlmi.info/. Previously released Unemployment Weekly Reports and other UI reports can be found at: http://www.vtlmi.info/lmipub.htm#uc