By Julia Fanzeres, Bloomberg News

Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, according to a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysis of state-level filings released during the federal government shutdown.

Initial claims rose to about 235,000 in the week ended Oct. 4 from the bank’s estimate of roughly 224,000 the prior week, Goldman Sachs economists led by Jan Hatzius said in a note to clients. The bank used the Labor Department’s pre-released seasonal factors to adjust the available raw state-level figures.

The Labor Department did not publish its weekly report Thursday due to the government shutdown, but it did release downloadable data for most states.

Continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people receiving benefits, ticked up to 1.92 million in the week ended Sept.

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