Figures for unemployed claimants came out this morning which show that 3,159 people on the Isle of Wight were claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) in January 2013.
Unemployment Benefit figures released by the Office for National Statistics show an increase of 79 since December 2013, which reported 3,080 JSA claimants, and a fall of 821 from January 2013 (3,980).
That means 3.9% of the resident population of area aged 16-64 is claiming JSA – 2.1% more than the rest of the South East (1.8%), and 0.9% more than the whole of the UK (3.0%).
