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

WASHINGTON – 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."

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