Weekly unemployment claims fell last week after rising briskly five of the previous six weeks. For the week of November 13, 2010, there were 893 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance, an decrease of 484 from the week before. Altogether 8,768 new and continuing claims were filed, an increase of 273 from a week ago and 2,160 fewer than a year earlier. The Department also processed 2,265 First Tier claims for benefits under Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08), 4 more than a week ago. In addition, there were 712 Second Tier claims for benefits processed under the EUC08 program, which is a decrease of 49 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