This was on average a reduction in the amount of the Allowance. In 2009, the 30% rate was increased to 40% and “in some cases to 50%” (NIC, 2009). However the Re-employment Allowance no doubt motivates some workers to participate in the Early (re-)employment support (programme, and the PES performance target for the early re-employment rate suggests that about a third of claims end early enough to qualify (see Chapters 2 and 3, and Table 5A.1). In 1995, about 40% of UI recipients received “some form of re-employment bonus” (Mazza, 2000).101 In 2007, there were 365 000 payments of Re-employment Allowance representing nearly a quarter of the number of first payments of regular El benefit, and allowance payments totalled JPY 60 billion representing 6% to 7% of total expenditure on regular El benefit (MHLW, 2008d).