what on Earth is the rolling 12-month total final payment?
Smoothing is irrelevant as graphed.
Indemnity paid fter the 26th week is another graph of extended UI payments (indemnity), variable wk 27 - wk 40. As I said, state coverage is variable; some claimants receive less than 40 wks compensation (indemnity). And so on -- BLS tiers 1-4.
All of these persons are counted in establishment survey of (establishment, firm) unemployed persons. However, these persons are not the only unemployed persons in the USA. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.