Last week, Iowa’s continuing weekly unemployment claims was 143,488 people. According to Iowa Workforce Development, the number of initial claims filed the final week of June was 8,300. The unemployment insurance benefit payments totaled $34,453,854.94. Industries with the most claims were manufacturing (2,172), self-employed or independent contractors (1,247), health care and social assistance (610), accommodation and food services (501), and retail trade (501). Also, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation paid since April 4th totaled $1,143,712,800.