Unemployment filings up 15% in DC, Maryland and Virginia

Jeff Clabaugh | jclabaugh@wtop.com
March 13, 2025, 12:27 PM

Some 7,800 residents in D.C., Maryland and Virginia filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week, a 15% increase from the previous week, even as new unemployment filings fell nationwide.

The Labor Department’s weekly report does not report previous employment for those filing for unemployment benefits by state; but nationwide, it reports 1,580 filings last week were former federal civilian employees, 54 filings fewer than the previous week. Currently, 8,215 Americans getting unemployment benefits are former federal civilian employees, up 803 from the previous week.

For the week ending March 8, there were 220,000 new claims for unemployment benefits nationwide, down 2,000 from the previous week. The more reliable four-week moving average of new claims was 226,000, an increase of 1,500.

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Jeff Clabaugh
Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for WTOP as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the WTOP newsroom staff in January 2016.
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