Here’s where $4 billion in unemployment benefits went in 2009

Published 9:49 am Thursday, January 14, 2010

The state paid out nearly $4 billion in benefits to 470,231 people in 2009, according to the Employment Security Department.

I’ve attached a spreadsheet from the department breaking the numbers down by county.

You’ll see $1.2 billion was paid out to 121,020 people in King County. Pierce County had the second highest number of recipients but the second largest sum of money ($513,429,203) was doled out to 54,603 unemployed workers in Snohomish County.