Section 5 provides a detailed analysis of the availability and coverage of income-support programmes for youth. It suggests that a better design of benefit systems, e.g. unemployment or social assistance schemes, could help reach a larger share of the neediest youth in a number of countries, notably when economic conditions worsen. Often, one year of work only will however provide benefits for less than a year, and many young people, and in particular the NEETs, may not even have these 12 months of work experience.