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IWD Reports Increase In Unemployment Claims

December 24, 2020

(Des Moines, IA)  —  Iowa Workforce Development is reporting an increase in initial and continuing unemployment claims from December 13th through 19th. 

The seven-thousand-645 first-time claims last week was an increase of more than 11-hundred from the previous week. 

The 38-thousand-318 continuing claims is up 200 from two weeks ago.  About 69 percent of these claims were not related to COVID-19 layoffs.  

I-W-D says federal unemployment programs are scheduled to end December 26th in Iowa.