For example, some programmes may allow unemployment benefit recipients to combine benefits with work or provide benefits to inactive individuals. For the purposes of this section, where possible, unemployment assistance programmes as well as temporary extensions to UB are presented separately from standard first-tier UB, so as to highlight the separate contributions of each. For a smaller group of countries, 4-6% of the working-age population was in receipt of unemployment benefits. This group included countries providing UA to a considerable number of unemployed persons (e.g. Finland, Germany and Ireland, as well as Spain on a temporary basis) and those with more comprehensive unemployment insurance programmes covering “longer” unemployment spells (e.g. Belgium, France, Portugal).