this could well destroy incentives to work among the poor and is unlikely to be optimal from the point of view of poverty reduction in the longrun neither do the different scenarios account for potential interaction between social benefits or change the amount of tax paid following a reallocation of benefits therefore they should only be seen as the initial effect that would arise from certain redistributions of transfers with the understanding that in the longer term other factors may change the overall impact table shows the various redistribution scenarios of family and housing benefits considered for oecd countries and what the associated child poverty rates would be for these countries