60According to the Court’s case-law, benefits which are granted automatically to families that meet certain objective criteria relating in particular to their size, income and capital resources, without any individual and discretionary assessment of personal needs, and which are intended to meet family expenses must be regarded as social security benefits (see to this effect, in particular, judgments of 16 July 1992 in Hughes, C‑78/91, EU:C:1992:331, paragraph 22, and of 10 October 1996 in Hoever and Zachow, C‑245/94 and C‑312/94, EU:C:1996:379, paragraph 27).
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