Eurofound’s new report on social protection focuses on unemployment and minimum income benefits for people of working age. Individuals with short or no employment records (mainly young people), the self-employed, those with non-standard working arrangements, and the long-term unemployed are often not entitled to higher-tier, or any, unemployment benefits. Around two-thirds of unemployed people in the EU do not receive benefits, often because their employment records are shorter than required, or their benefits have run out. Social benefits play a significant role in the lives of people on low incomes, halving the number of people at risk of poverty in the EU in 2022; dropping from 31% to 15.5% among the working-age population.
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