U.S. Benefits Access Stays About the Same: Bureau of Labor Statistics
September 25, 2019 by Allison Bell
U.S. workers’ access to employee benefits may have stayed about the same between March 2018 and March 2019, even as the overall U.S. civilian unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, from 4%.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — an arm of the U.S. Department of Labor — has published data supporting that conclusion in a collection of results from the bureau’s March civilian employer survey.
The percentage of U.S. civilian workers who had access to medical benefits seemed to edge lower, to 71%, from 72%, according to the BLS data. But the margin of error for that figure is 0.7%, meaning that the apparent 1-percentage drop in access could be mostly the result of a rounding error.
Here’s what happened to access to some other types of benefits:
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