Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain …, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …

alleviate even the most extremes of poverty. In this sense, the pandemic is yet another reminder for how important investments …

We assess how tax-benefit policy developments in 2001-2011 affected the household income distribution in seven EU … practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and … monetary parameters not only had a positive effect on household incomes, meaning fiscal drag and benefit erosion were avoided …