Figures for unemployed claimants came out this morning which show that 1,502 people on the Isle of Wight were claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) in August.
Unemployment Benefit figures released by the Office for National Statistics show a fall of 122 since July, which reported 1,624 JSA claimants, and a fall of 1,218 from August 2013 (2,720).
That means 1.9% of the resident population of area aged 16-64 is claiming JSA – 0.6% more than the rest of the South East (1.3%), and 0.4% than the whole of the UK (2.3%).
