Family policy is an important sector of social policy and support for families has both fiscal and overall economic importance. Since the beginning of the economic transformation, it has undergone several stages of development, one of the trends being more targeted support and strengthening of the link to the economic activity of parents. The aim of this paper is to discuss the situation of direct support of families in the Czech Republic in relation to the income level of beneficiaries and to show the fiscal dimension of individual forms of support. The analysis was complicated by the very difficult availability and inconsistency of relevant data. Nevertheless, the results include qualified estimates of the fiscal impacts of selected family financial support options and summarize the main identified system imperfections.