companies can receive grants for providing trial employment to freeters aged and unstable workers in their late thirties and further subsidies when they give these workers fulltime positions after trial employment further measures include the extension of intensive counselling for this group of workers as has already been mentioned older freeters are also a target group of the job card system mhlw a in the context of the financial and economic crisis a system of grants again jpy million per person for smes and jpy million for large companies was introduced for employers who hire older freeters aged by allocating certain job openings to them mhlw a