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 long-run15. Neither, do the different scenarios account for potential interaction between social benefits or change the amount of tax paid following a reallocation of benefits16. 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 8 shows the various redistribution scenarios of family17 and housing benefits considered for OECD countries and what the associated child poverty rates would be for these countries.