New Estimates Show State-By-State Breakdown of 72,000 Additional Americans to Lose Unemployment Insurance Each Week

Ways and Means Committee Democrats today released new estimates showing how many additional people in every state will lose their unemployment benefits each week that the federal program remains expired. On Saturday, 1.3 million people nationwide lost their federal unemployment insurance. In the first six months of 2014, an additional 1.9 million Americans will lose their coverage as they exhaust their state benefits and are unable to receive federal unemployment insurance - with 72,000 losing their benefits each week during the first half of 2014. The figures are based on Department of Labor data.

In Texas, more than 4,000 additional people will lose their benefits, on average, each week going forward. In Illinois, an additional 3,400 state residents, on average, will lose their unemployment insurance each week. The full state-by-state estimates are below.

The federal program, which expired Saturday, provided up to 47 weeks of federal benefits on top of state benefits - for a maximum of 73 weeks of state and federal unemployment insurance.

"The clock is ticking each week for tens of thousands of additional Americans who are slated to lose their coverage and add to the more than 1.3 million people who have already been cut off from this basic assistance for job seekers," said Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI). "Every day, the urgency increases for additional Americans looking for work and those who have already lost this vital lifeline."

STATE Number Who Were Cut Off UI on Dec. 28 Additional Number Losing UI Each Week During First Half of 2014

AK 4,300 431

AL 12,036 723

AR 9,300 654

AZ 17,100 865

CA 213,793 12,531

CO 20,237 1123

CT 23997 1104

DC 4,600 262

DE 3,600 185

FL 73,000 3,665

GA 54,400 2,196

HI 1,900 223

IA 4,300 700

ID 2,600 423

IL 81,867 3,427

IN 19,200 977

KS 4,400 635

KY 18,000 677

LA 7,832 477

MA 58,700 2,108

MD 22,900 1,096

ME 3,300 342

MI 43,311 3,327

MN 9,231 1,304

MO 21,329 1,362

MS 13,400 469

MT 1,876 312

NC - NA

ND 300 208

NE 1,200 319

NH 1,004 150

NJ 90,300 3,427

NM 6,000 373

NV 17,600 842

NY 127,100 5,108

OH 39,100 1,877

OK 4,907 573

OR 20,067 1,115

PA 73,330 3,573

PR 30,700 908

RI 4,900 342

SC 15,400 738

SD 200 31

TN 19,500 1,192

TX 64,294 4,112

UT 2,500 373

VA 9,700 1,227

VI 1,300 46

VT 600 88

WA 24,414 1,446

WI 23,700 1,608

WV 7,000 373

WY 600 142

Total: 1,336,225 71,788

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