In 2006, registered unemployed people received such referrals at an average rate of 4.2 per year, i.e. about one every three months (OECD, 2007c). Recently additional funding for disabled and older workers was announced and the system was expanded to include older freeters and daily-dispatched workers (see Chapter 5, Web-Japan, 2005, OECD, 2009a, and MHLW, 2009a). Job applicants may sometimes be called into the office for a pre-selection interview, but in the majority of the cases they are referred without such interviews.