37According to the Court’s case-law, benefits that are granted automatically to families meeting objective criteria relating in particular to their size, income and capital resources, without any individual and discretionary assessment of personal needs, and that are intended to meet family expenses, must be regarded as social security benefits (judgments of 14 June 2016, Commission v United Kingdom, C‑308/14, EU:C:2016:436, paragraph 60, and of 21 June 2017, Martinez Silva, C‑449/16, EU:C:2017:485, paragraph 22).
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