this was on average a reduction in the amount of the allowance in the rate was increased to and in some cases to nic however the reemployment allowance no doubt motivates some workers to participate in the early reemployment support programme and the pes performance target for the early reemployment rate suggests that about a third of claims end early enough to qualify see chapters and and table a in about of ui recipients received some form of reemployment bonus mazza in there were payments of reemployment allowance representing nearly a quarter of the number of first payments of regular el benefit and allowance payments totalled jpy billion representing to of total expenditure on regular el benefit mhlw d