If an inactive partner or partner with limited paid working hours in a low-income household enters work or increases their working hours, the household may lose its entitlement to certain benefits in part or in full. Second earners in low-income households may not therefore have much financial incentive to increase their working hours, although that would depend on the rate at which benefits are withdrawn. For example, in Finland and the Netherlands, w'here in-work benefit entitlements are based on an individual’s income, secondary earners in the lowest income decile have financial incentives to work part-time. Other in-work benefits are contingent on working at least a certain amount of hours, which gives women incentive to w'ork more than short part-time hours - at least 38 hours in ever}' fortnight in Ireland, for example. When in-work benefits are applied to household earnings, and earnings assessments therefore include the partner’s income, they afford little or no incentive to the partners of full-time earners to enter the labour market or increase their hours if they work part-time. For example, in the United States, the earned income tax credit (EITC) is assessed on family income.