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The Department of Labor's published weekly claims report lists seasonally adjusted initial claims as 198,000 for the week ending January 10, 2026.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration weekly unemployment insurance news release for January 15, 2026 reports that, for the week ending January 10, 2026, “the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 198,000, a decrease of 9,000 from the previous week’s revised level.” Secondary aggregators that reproduce the official release, such as Primary News Source and PREEMPT, quote the same sentence and figure, explicitly tying it to the Department of Labor’s release dated January 15, 2026. These independent reproductions are consistent with the official PDF news release hosted on the Department of Labor’s unemployment insurance press site. Verdict: True, because multiple credible sources, including the official Department of Labor unemployment insurance news release and independent document archives, all state that the advance seasonally adjusted initial claims figure for the week ending January 10, 2026 was 198,000.