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Fri 01 Jan 2009Unemployment rises to ten-year high of 8.3% in December
Unemployment rose to ten-year high of 8.3 per cent at the end of 2008 as the number of jobless people claiming benefits surged by a record 121,100 in the year to December.
During 2008 the number of Live Register jobseekers' benefit and allowance claimants soared by a record 71 per cent to bring the total number of claimants to 293,500. This is the highest level of claimants since December 1993, according to seasonally adjusted figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) this morning.
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