11.   Processing benefit claims for sick veterans takes longer now than it did before the government installed modernized computers.

12.   Stocks had waffled earlier in the session as traders digested data on unemployment benefits claims and industrial production.

13.   Stocks seesawed in early trading as investors tried to digest new data on unemployment benefits claims and industrial production.

14.   Stocks seesawed through most of the morning as investors tried to digest new data on unemployment benefits claims and industrial production.

15.   Stocks had been mixed earlier in the day as investors tried to digest new data on unemployment benefits claims and industrial production.

16.   The Labor Department, they noted, reviews medical benefit claims for federal workers, and also has a network of regional offices with claims-takers.

17.   The House on Tuesday approved a cost-of-living increase for veterans disability compensation and moved to make it easier for veterans to file benefit claims.

18.   The INEM reports jobless benefits claims monthly, while the National Statistics Institute reports the more widely-watched quarterly unemployment data, drawn from a survey of households.

19.   The system could also make it easier for banks to cut down on identity fraud, such as credit card crime or bogus benefit claims, he said.

20.   Besides money supply and stocks, the leading index was pulled down by jobless benefit claims, interest rates and consumer sentiment.