(Radio Iowa) – Unemployment claims dropped last week after a big spike in the previous week. Continuing weekly unemployment claims dropped by more than 37-hundred in the past week after a jump of nearly 54-hundred the week before. Iowa Workforce Development said in its weekly report that this is the time of the year where claims tend to go up as seasonal businesses lay off workers.

The report says nearly 58 percent of those who filed unemployment claims last week said their claims were NOT COVID-19 related — which is down from the prior week when 59 percent said the claims were not related to COVID-19.

New unemployment claims last week were down around 32-hundred.