Abstract
Abstract This chapter assesses the adequacy and design of minimum income protection arrangements for those who are at the same time out-of-work and able to work, but ineligible for social insurance. Income provisions for this target group can be considered as the minimal social right guaranteed by contemporary welfare states. Since the recent introductions of final safety nets among the Southern European countries, currently all Western nations covered in this chapter provide a general safety net. In this chapter, we use hypothetical household simulations to identify the combined minimum income protection packages, guaranteed through the interplay of the general safety net with the wider tax benefit system in the European Union Member States, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We identify the countries that perform well in terms of providing (relatively) adequate minimum income protection packages, and assess the policy mixes that are used to do so.
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