Judgment_paragraph 48 · Caisse nationale des prestations familiales v Fjola Hliddal (C‑216/12) and Pierre-Louis Bornand (C‑217/12) (C-216/12, C-217/12)

48According to settled case-law, a benefit may be regarded as a social security benefit in so far as it is granted to the recipients, without any individual and discretionary assessment of personal needs, on the basis of a legally defined position and relates to one of the risks expressly listed in Article 4(1) of Regulation No 1408/71 (see, inter alia, Hughes, paragraph 15; Case C-286/03 Hosse [2006] ECR I-1771, paragraph 37; Joined Cases C-396/05, C-419/05 and C-450/05 Habelt and Others [2007] ECR I-11895, paragraph 63; and Case C-228/07 Petersen [2008] ECR I-6989, paragraph 19).