Entitlement Program

Context:
- It can range from being a Social Welfare Program to being a Tax-Incentive Program.
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Example(s)
- a U.S. Food Stamp Program.
- a Corporate Welfare Program.
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Counter-Example(s)
- a Military Program.
- a Government Interest Payment Program.
- an Anarchist Project.
See: Constitutional Right, Legislation, Social Equality, Enfranchisement, Legislation, Enfranchisement, Constitutional Right, Principle, Provision, Law, Social Equality, Decommodification.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/entitlement Retrieved:2015-9-28.
- An entitlement is a government program guaranteeing access to some benefit by members of a specific group and based on established rights or by legislation. ^[1] ^[2] The term may also reflect a pejorative connotation, as in a "sense of entitlement". A "right" is itself an entitlement associated with a moral or social principle, such that an "entitlement" is a provision made in accordance with a legal framework of a society. Typically, entitlements are based on concepts of principle ("rights") which are themselves based in concepts of social equality or enfranchisement.

http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/entitlement_program
- The kind of government program that provides individuals with personal financial benefits (or sometimes special government-provided goods or services) to which an indefinite (but usually rather large) number of potential beneficiaries have a legal right (enforceable in court, if necessary) whenever they meet eligibility conditions that are specified by the standing law that authorizes the program. The beneficiaries of entitlement programs are normally individual citizens or residents, but sometimes organizations such as business corporations, local governments, or even political parties may have similar special "entitlements" under certain programs. The most important examples of entitlement programs at the federal level in the United States would include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, most Veterans' Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans, unemployment compensation, food stamps, and agricultural price support programs.