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    Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries and Benefit Amounts Paid: Beginning 2001

    Metadata Updated: January 17, 2026

    Dataset contains monthly counts, from 2001 to present, of individuals receiving regular unemployment insurance benefits, as well as the total amount of benefits received from New York State.

    Data are provided for the state, 10 labor market regions, and counties. State counts can include everyone who receives benefits through New York State (including out-of-state residents) or only state residents who do so (excluding out-of-state residents).

    Regular unemployment insurance includes: Unemployment Insurance (UI) Compensation, Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE), Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Service Members (UCX), Shared Work (SW) and Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP). It excludes federal extensions and 599.2 training.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 17, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NY State JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 17, 2026
    Publisher State of New York
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ny.gov/api/views/xbjp-8sra
    Data First Published 2020-11-27
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-16
    Category Economic Development
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ny.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 7a20ff6e-75aa-40f7-9f6d-761854070b65
    Harvest Source Id 36f923f9-f915-42dc-a4de-1a5e3a17d284
    Harvest Source Title NY State JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.ny.gov/d/xbjp-8sra
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4ca60ea1829bee7221f5466a9e30787f3fdc9ff0635ea8fb33f2e3654a4550f4
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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