Therefore a side-effectofthe increased flexibility of the labour market has been a weakening of the traditional, family-based safety net (NBG, 2012) that protected many vulnerable groups in the absence of a broad public social support. As support to the unemployed (unemployment insurance benefit and means-tested unemployment assistance) lasts only two years, and there is no means-tested minimum income yet, many families have been left with no income. The sharp rise in long-term unemployment and people living in jobless households is thus of great social concern (Figure 2.13).