Panel A of Figure 1.17 shows that the increase in the number of UB recipients typically did not match the increase in the number of the unemployed, potentially leaving an important share of the “newly” unemployed to rely on family or community support and/or the lower tier of income assistance. In a number of countries, the extent to which the expansion in beneficiaries matched the increase in unemployment was relatively higher during the second year of the crisis than during the first year. This is the case in Chile, France, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg and the United States as part of its “regular” UB programme. This suggests that at the outset of the crisis, dismissed workers (e.g. self-employed or working on a temporary/intermittent basis) were less likely to have sufficient previous work experience in a recent period to qualify for UB than were workers dismissed at a later point in the crisis.