for sweden the lower age cutoff is instead of in particular looking at inequality before and after accounting for taxes and benefits does not allow separating the effects of policy initiatives on the one hand and changes in marketincome inequality eg because of changing employment patterns on the other this section attempts to shed more light on the role of specific policy changes outofwork benefits provide support to people who may otherwise have very low incomes or no income at all unemployment benefits but also other outofwork programmes notably disability benefits which now account for a larger share of social spending but are less important for younger and primeage workers