colorado unemployment insurance charts · 2020. 7. 2. · colorado regular unemployment insurance...

COLORADO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CHARTS

THROUGH WEEK ENDING JUNE 27, 2020

COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

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Colorado Regular Unemployment Insurance Initial Claims

2019 Weekly average = 1,900High week = 3,162 (12/7/19)

2009‐2010Weekly average = 4,800High week = 7,749 (1/9/10)

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Initial claim: a claim filed to establish benefit eligibility. Initial claims are considered a reliable leading indicator of economic activity.**Regular UI claims only reflected in this chart, does not include initial claims which stemmed from extended benefit programs during the Great Recession. Also excludes UCFE (federal)and UCX (ex‐servicemember) claims.

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Colorado Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Initial Claims

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Initial claim: a claim filed to establish benefit eligibility. Initial claims are considered a reliable leading indicator of economic activity.**Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims only reflected in this chart; program started in Colorado week ending April 25, 2020.

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Colorado Regular Unemployment Insurance Continued Weeks Claimed



Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Continued weeks claimed: a claim filed to request payment for a given week after eligibility has been established. Weeks claimed provide information as to current labor market conditions.**Regular UI claims only reflected in this chart, does not include continued claims which stemmed from extended benefit programs during the Great Recession. Also excludes UCFE (federal)and UCX (ex‐servicemember) claims.

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% of EmploymentLess than 3.0%3.0% to 5.9%6.0% to 8.9%9.0% to 11.9%12.0% +

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Bureau of Labor StatisticsNote: County-level data most recent available

*** For Week Ending June 13, 2020 ***

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Colorado Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Continued Weeks Claimed

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Continued weeks claimed: a claim filed to request payment for a given week after eligibility has been established. Weeks claimed provide information as to current labor market conditions.**Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims only reflected in this chart; program started in Colorado week ending April 25, 2020.

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Colorado Short‐Time Compensation (Work‐Share) Initial Claims

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Short‐Time Compensation (STC) Equivalent Initial Claim: this is the equivalent of the full time layoff initial claims that would have taken place if not for the STC program.**As of July 1, 2020 there were 1,082 Colorado employers with active work‐share plans. Prior to outbreak of COVID‐19 there were 6 employers with active work‐share plans.***Combined number of Federal‐State UI Extended and State UI Additional Compensation Program claims reflected in this chart.****For more information on the STC program, go to: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/docs/stc_fact_sheet.pdf and https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdle/layoffassistance.

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Colorado Short‐Time Compensation (Work‐Share) Continued Claims

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Short‐Time Compensation (STC) Equivalent Continued Weeks Claimed: this is based on the proportion of the week being claimed. **As of July 1, 2020 there were 1,082 Colorado employers with active work‐share plans. Prior to outbreak of COVID‐19 there were 6 employers with active work‐share plans.***Combined number of Federal‐State UI Extended and State UI Additional Compensation Program claims reflected in this chart.****For more information on the STC program, go to: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/docs/stc_fact_sheet.pdf and https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdle/layoffassistance.

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Colorado Insured Unemployment Rate

2019 Weekly average = 0.71%High week = 0.85% (3/30/19)

2009‐2010Weekly average = 3.01%High week = 3.52% (4/10/10)

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Employment and Training Administration*Insured unemployment rate (IUR): estimates the share of the State’s UI‐covered workforce claiming UI benefits.**Regular IUR only reflected in this chart, does not include calculation of IUR if claims from extended benefits programs during the Great Recession were included. Also excludes UCFE (federal) and UCX (ex‐servicemember) claims.

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Colorado Unemployment Insurance Weeks Paid



Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment*Weeks paid: payment made for a week after eligibility has been established. Not all weeks claimed result in a week paid because claimant may not be available to work,may have earnings that exceed the allowed amount, or other reasons.

**Regular UI, UCFE (federal), and UCX (ex‐servicemember) weeks paid reflected in this chart. Does not include weeks paid which stemmed from extended benefit programs during the Great Recession.

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Colorado Regular Unemployment Insurance Benefit Amounts Paid

2019 Weekly average = $7.1mHigh month = $36.9m (Dec)

2009‐2010Weekly average = $19.0mHigh month = $102.8m (May '09)

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment**Regular UI benefit payment amounts only reflected in this chart, does not include benefit payments which stemmed from extended benefit programs during the Great Recession. Also excludes UCFE (federal) and UCX (ex‐servicemember) claims.

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Colorado Unemployment Insurance Benefit Amounts Paid(Regular UI, PUA, and FPUC)

Regular UI PUA FPUC

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment**This chart reflects benefits payment amounts for the following programs: Regular UI (black bar); Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) (red bar), for self‐employed, contract and gig workers;and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) (green bar), which, as part of CARES Act, provides eligible regular UI and PUA claimants an extra $600 in federal benefitseach week through July 25, 2020. PUA and FPUC amounts for week ending 4/25/20 include backdated benefits prior to the week of April 25th.

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Annual Colorado Unemployment Insurance Benefit Amounts Paid(Combined Amounts for All Active** UI Programs by Year)

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment*2020 totals through June 27, 2020.**Every year includes regular UI, UCFE (federal) and UCX (ex‐servicemember) benefit amounts. Additionally, totals from 2008 ‐ 2019 include Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) andState Extended Benefits (SEB), when applicable; while totals from 2020 reflect programs highlighted in the prior chart.

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Regular State UI EUC08 (all tiers) PUA State Extended Benefits Total

June 2020Regular State UI = 278,286PUA = 97,221UCFE/UCX = 551Total = 376,058

February 2010Regular State UI = 71,117 EUC08 (all tiers) = 73,071State Extended Benefits = 1,985UCFE/UCX = 1,928Total = 148,101

Source: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment*Number of persons receiving UI payment by month and program: updated once per month, at the beginning of month. Count of UI payment by program type based upon relationship between last payment received and associated program. Data related to new unemployment compensation programs will be incorporated into this report as they become available (PUA added April 2020).

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