Colorado’s unemployment rates are rising, with the number of initial pandemic unemployment claims higher than it has been since June, according to data released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

There were 7,281 initial pandemic unemployment claims for the week ending on Nov. 7, more than double the number of initial claims in the previous week ending Oct. 31.

The state’s initial pandemic unemployment claims had not broken 4,000 in one week since July 11 and had not exceeded 6,000 since June 20.

Colorado’s regular unemployment claims are also on the rise, reaching 7,483 initial claims for the week ending Nov. 7. That is the state’s highest number of weekly claims since July 25.

CDLE said it will be conducting a review to determine what might be contributing to the significant increase in unemployment claims, particularly pandemic unemployment claims.

The review will include a deep-dive fraud analysis for which updates will be published next week.

Continued pandemic unemployment claims — requests for payment on existing claims — have also increased. Continued claims hit 78,759 the week of Nov. 7, about 14,000 more than the previous week and the highest since July 11.

Continued regular unemployment claims are down for the 16th week in a row, hitting 91,444. Though lower, that is still significantly higher than the 2019 weekly average of 18,600 and the 2009-10 weekly average of 67,600.

Since mid-March, 601,964 initial regular unemployment claims and 183,728 initial pandemic unemployment claims have been filed in Colorado.