Unemployment Insurance Tables and Figures in CRS Reports

Following is a list of tables and figures related to Unemployment Insurance that can be found in the CRS reports included in this Green Book chapter.

Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits

RL33362: Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits

Table 1. State Unemployment Compensation Benefits Amounts, January 2014

Table 2. State Unemployment Taxes: Taxable Wage Base and Rates, January 2014

Table 3. Revenue and Expenditures Associated with Unemployment Compensation, FY2001-FY2014

Table B-1. Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program: Public Law, Benefits, Effective Dates, and Financing

Figure A-1. Sequence of Unemployment Benefits: UC, EUC08, and EB Until December 28, 2013

Figure A-2. Benefits Available in Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) July 6, 2008-December 28, 2013

R42444: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08): Status of Benefits Prior to Expiration

Table 1. Summary of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) Program: Public Law, Benefits, Effective Dates, and Financing

Table 2. Summary of EUC08 Program Authorization Lapses

Figure 1. Benefits Available in Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08), July 6, 2008-December 28, 2013

Figure A-1. Sequence of Unemployment Benefits Prior to EUC08 Expiration

R42936: Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress

Table 1. Proposals to Extend Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) and Other Federal Unemployment Insurance (UI) Provisions

Figure 1. Sequence of Unemployment Benefits: UC, EUC08, and EB Until December 28, 2013

R41662: Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 112th Congress

Figure 1. P.L. 112-96 Changes to EUC08 Program

R41777: Antipoverty Effects of Unemployment Insurance

Table 1. General Description of Temporary Federal Unemployment Insurance Programs, 1987-2012

Figure 1. Monthly and Annual Average Unemployment Rate

Figure 2. Median Duration of Unemployment among Unemployed Workers in Weeks, January 1987 to August 2012

Figure 3. Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate and an Alternative Measure of Underutilization (BLS U-6 Definition)

Figure 4. Percentage of Unemployed Receiving Unemployment Benefits

Figure 5. Percentage of Unemployed Receiving Temporary (EUC, TEUC, or EUC08) Benefits or Extended Benefits

Figure 6. Pre- and Post-UI Benefit Poverty Rates of Persons, 1987-2011

Figure 7. Number of Persons Lifted Above Poverty as a Result of UI Benefit Receipt, 1987-2011

Figure 8. Pre- and Post-UI Benefit Poverty Rates of Persons in Families that Received UI Benefits, 1987-2011

Figure 9. Percentage Reduction in the Poverty Rate as a Result of UI Benefit Receipt, Overall Poverty Rate and Poverty Rate for Persons in Families that Received UI Benefits, 1987-2011

Figure 10. UI Benefits: Aggregate Dollars and Dollars Reducing Poverty, 1987-2011

Figure 11. Share of Aggregate UI Benefits Going Toward Reducing Poverty, 1987-2011

Figure 12. Pre-Post UI Poverty Rates Among Unemployed Persons Who Received UI Benefits and Those Who Did Not, 1987-2011

Figure 13. Share of Unemployed Persons Who Had No Earnings in the Year, by UI Receipt, 1987-2011

Figure B-1. Persons Who Reported UI Benefit Receipt, by Labor Force Status: 2011

Figure B-2. Persons Who Reported UI Benefit Receipt, by Labor Force Status: 2011

Figure B-3. Share of Unemployed and Underutilized Workers at Any Time During the Year Compared to Monthly and Annual Average Unemployment

Figure B-4. Expanded Definitions of Unemployment and Labor Underutilization, 1987-2011

Figure B-5. An Expanded Definition of Unemployed and Underutilized Workers, 1987-2011

Figure B-6. Unemployment Insurance Receipt Among Persons, by Selected Labor Force Status, 1987-2011

Figure C-1. UI Recipients and Aggregate UI Dollars CPS/ASEC Estimates as a Percent of Administrative Benchmarks 1987-2011

RL34340: Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions

Table A-1. Summary of Extended Unemployment Compensation Programs

Table A-2. Details: Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC) Benefits

Table A-3. Details: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Benefits of 1991

Table A-4. Details: Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) Benefits of 2008

Table A-5. Timing of Recessions, 12-Month Change of at Least One Million, and Extended Unemployment Benefits, 1990-2013

Table A-6. Funding Temporary Unemployment Programs

Table A-7. Potential Maximum Available Weeks of Unemployment Benefits, 1935-Present

Figure 1. Economic Recessions, Percentage of Regular UC Beneficiaries to All Unemployed, and UC Benefit Exhaustees, January 1979-July 2014

Figure 2. Recessions, Changes in Unemployment Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, Unemployment Rates, and Temporary Federal Benefit Availability, January 1979-July 2014

Figure 3. Recessions, Changes in Regular UC Benefit Exhaustions Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, and Unemployment Rates, January 1979-July 2014

Figure 4. Recessions, Changes in Long-Term Unemployment Compared with the Same Month in Previous Year, and Unemployment Rates, January 1979-July 2014

R41859: Unemployment Insurance: Consequences of Changes in State Unemployment Compensation Laws

Table 1. States with Unemployment Compensation (UC) Law Changes That Decrease Benefit Duration

Table 2. Adjusted Maximum EUC08 (when authorized) and EB Benefit Duration Resulting from Changes to State Maximum UC Benefit Duration

R42643: Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers (“Millionaires”)

Table 1. Number of Tax Filers Receiving Unemployment Benefit Income

Table 2. Amount of Unemployment Benefit Income Received by Tax Filers

Unemployment Trust Fund and Financing

RS22077: Unemployment Compensation (UC) and the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF): Funding UC Benefits

Figure 1. The Unemployment Trust Fund

RS22954: The Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF): State Insolvency and Federal Loans to States

Table 1. Schedule of State Tax Credit Reduction and Net Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) Tax

Table 2. Outstanding Loan Balances, Interest Owed, and Potential State Tax Credit Reduction (February 18, 2014)

Table 3. State Unemployment Trust Fund Accounts: Financial Information by State, 3rd Quarter Calendar Year 2013

RS22006: The Unemployment Trust Fund and Reed Act Distributions

Table 1. Reed Act Distributions

RS21356: Taxation of Unemployment Benefits 

Table 1. Number of Federal Tax Returns With Reported Unemployment Compensation (UC) and Amount of Benefits, Tax Years 1998-2011

Table 2. Estimated Effect of Taxing Unemployment Compensation, by Income Class, 2005

Other Unemployment Benefits and Alternative Programs

R41253: The Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) Program

Table 1. States with SEA Programs for UC Claimants

Table 2. Number of Recent Participants in the Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) Program for UC Claimants, by State, 2000-2013

R40689: Compensated Work Sharing Arrangements (Short-Time Compensation) as an Alternative to Layoffs

Table 1. Short-Time Compensation (STC) and Regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) Beneficiaries, 1982 to 2013

Table 2. State Legislation and Short-Time Compensation (STC) First Payments as Percentage of Regular Unemployment Compensation First Payments, 2013

Table 3. State Enactment of Short-Time Compensation (STC) Program

Table A-1. States with Short-Time Compensation Programs

RS22440: Unemployment Compensation (Insurance) and Military Service

Table 1. Unemployment Compensation Benefit Eligibility for Workers Who Voluntarily Quit Because of a Spousal Transfer

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