The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits surged last week, partially boosted by Hurricane Helene and furloughs at Boeing amid a nearly four-week-old strike at the U.S.

In the week through Sept. 28, there were 225,000 initial jobless claims, compared economists expectations of 220,000 initial claims.

Weekly Initial Jobless Claims for the week ending September 28 were 225,000, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised level, according to data the Labor Department released on Thursday. The number is above the average economist estimate of 221,