Federal unemployment benefits were set to expire in September. Earlier this year, Indiana officials tried to end them early.

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the state lost more than 6,000 jobs combined in manufacturing and leisure and hospitality last month.

Hoosiers appealing issues with their unemployment benefits may still have to wait about six or seven months before they can get a hearing. Before the pandemic, that process took about 12 weeks.

Programs including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) ended on Sept. 4.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, now the number of Hoosiers in banking is trending back down and it's almost back to it’s 2020 low.

Indiana's unemployment rate remained unchanged between June and July, standing at 4.1 percent, but some areas are seeing job recovery faster than others.

The agency started August with more than 17,000 pending appeals after peaking with nearly 22,000 such appeals in January. Only California, Texas and Virginia -- states with much larger populations -- had more unsettled cases.

State officials filed an appeal this week in an ongoing attempt to withdraw Indiana from federal programs that expanded unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

Federal unemployment benefits are back on in Indiana. State officials said they've already paid 25,000 people on the first day while they also gave updates on unemployment fraud and overpayments at a press conference.