Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Unemployment insurance (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Personal income and its disposition
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to national-accounts data for the United States published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the item "Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Unemployment insurance" was 35,267 USD million (annual rate) in May 2026, compared to 35,288 in April. This represents a reduction of 0.06 percent.
Sample. There are 809 observations overall in the monthly time series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 1959 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: this national-accounts item was equal on average to 38,373 USD million; it hit a maximum of 1,434,256 in July 2020; it registered a minimum of 1,727 in October 1966.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar million |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 36028.0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 35288.0 |
| 2026-05-31 | 35267.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Personal income: Personal current transfer receipts: Government social benefits to persons: Unemployment insurance |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Nominal aggregate |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | Annual rate |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | US dollar million |
| Source | Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open data |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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Top-level items
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal income (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal current taxes (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Disposable personal income (personal income less personal current taxes) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal saving (disposable personal income less personal outlays) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
Personal income detail
Personal outlays detail
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal outlays: Personal consumption expenditures (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal interest payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To government (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Personal outlays: Personal current transfer payments: To the rest of the world (net) (USD million; annual rate) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |