in other oecd countries which have a social assistance benefit as well as wagerelated unemployment insurance social assistance caseloads range from about to of the workingage population with a median of about thus the caseload is several times below the average for other oecd countries even though most of them also provide more coverage of the unemployed and other workingage target groups by social insurance benefits some accounts suggest that implementation of this requirement was vigorous in the s but has been relaxed since