Second, it takes a closer look at trends in the number of UB and SA recipients to identify groups at risk of not being caught by the safety net. The unweighted average increase was a sizeable 1.9 percentage points, but this reflects both increased public spending and declining GDP. Ireland saw the sharpest increase in the benefit spending share which rose by nearly 5 percentage points, while the increase was close to 3 percentage points in Finland, Greece, Spain and the United States.