State: First-time jobless claims increase

New data released Thursday by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows that over 16,000 people filed first-time unemployment claims last week. The state says that for the week ending January 2^nd, 16,554 people filed jobless claims, the highest number recorded in a single week since the end of July. Today’s figures also represent a 6356-person increase in first-time filers over last week’s number of 10,198. Since the beginning of March, when the effects of the pandemic and the related economic shutdown began to be felt in earnest, 980,983 have filed unemployment claims with the state.

115 Anderson Countians filed for unemployment last week and another 485 people received continued benefit payments. Campbell County had 78 people apply for assistance last week, with another 249 receiving continuing benefits. 72 claims were filed a week ago in Roane County, where 364 continuing claims were paid, and in Morgan County, there were 42 new filings and 112 continued payments.

Find a complete look at the county-by-county data by following this link.

New Claims Filed: The number of individuals filing new unemployment claims for the previous week.
Continued Claims: The number of claims continued with weekly certifications.
 

WEEK	WEEK ENDING DATE	NEW CLAIMS	CONTINUED CLAIMS
10	March 14	2,702	16,342
11	March 21	39,096	16,098
12	March 28	94,492	34,570
13	April 4	116,141	112,438
14	April 11	74,772	199,910
15	April 18	68,968	267,053
16	April 25	43,792	324,543
17	May 2	37,319	321,571
18	May 9	29,308	325,095
19	May 16	28,692	314,487
20	May 23	26,041	310,126
21	May 30	22,784	302,260
22	June 6	21,417	292,234
23	June 13	19,925	280,593
24	June 20	21,155	266,596
25	June 27	22,256	262,224
26	July 4	25,843	256,645
27	July 11	22,431	251,924
28	July 18	25,794	243,405
29	July 25	19,461	242,397
30	August 1	11,690	224,093
31	August 8	10,036	208,810
32	August 15	13,806	204,726
33	August 22	10,998	191,204
34	August 29	12,035	184,781
35	September 5	11,706	176,388
36	September 12	10,771	163,791
37	September 19	11,313	152,195
38	September 26	9,802	138,727
39	October 3	9,839	125,238
40	October 10	10,145	90,507
41	October 17	9,873	77,740
42	October 24	7,770	70,982
43	October 31	6,992	64,188
44	November 7	7,221	58,298
45	November 14	6,182	53,976
46	November 21	6,873	51,624
47	November 28	5,789	46,665
48	December 5	6,886	46,404
49	December 12	7,464	44,215
50	December 19	7,411	43,482
51	December 26	10,198	45,226
52	January 2	16,554	51,816
New Claims Since March 15	980,983