The average contribution of family cash benefits to their net income was 2.7% for couple families and 8.4% of sole-parent families (Chart 2.1) in 2011, measured as a share of the family’s net income. (Chart 2.3).16 Box 2.2 provides a discussion of the various types of cash benefits available to families with children. For sole-parent families, family cash benefits provided the greatest income share (more than 15%) in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Sweden; for couple-parent households cash benefits amounted to more than 5% of net income in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ireland and Luxembourg.