The phrase "address entitlements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to discussing rights, benefits, or privileges that individuals or groups may have.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to address entitlements to ensure everyone understands their rights within the organization."
Alternatives: "discuss entitlements" or "tackle entitlements".
Mr Obama did little in his budget other than to acknowledge the need to address entitlements.
In March, the government launched a green paper proposing a bill of rights and responsibilities, designed to complement the act, and which Straw said would address entitlements to welfare, equality, housing, children's wellbeing and the NHS.
Last week, the chamber wrote a letter to the Congressional "supercommittee" demanding that it "address entitlements" — meaning cut the benefits of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — and restructure the tax code.
Republicans refused to raise taxes and Democrats refused to address entitlements, even attacking the House Republicans' modest plan to rein in Medicare.
The article quoted Ryan as stating on CBS a few days before Christmas, "We have to address entitlements, otherwise we can't really get a handle on our future debt". That's a remark that deserves horselaughs, given that the tax cuts Ryan and his GOP colleagues just handed out to corporations and their wealthy donors will create a deficit of $1.4 trillion or more in the next 10 years.
He said Obama's plans failed to address entitlement reform – cuts in social security and Medicare benefits.
There are two other pressing challenges that I've raised repeatedly before this body, and that this body has failed to address: entitlement spending and immigration.
I'll be thirty next week and for as long as I can remember people have been talking about how the United States needs to address entitlement spending and trade imbalances.
The Democrats' budget blueprint, passed in different form by the House and the Senate, "doesn't do anything to address entitlement spending" and simply assumes $15 billion in savings by cutting payments to certain health care providers, Mr. Grassley said.
After a few more balanced budgets, the old problems of deficit spending returned, driven in large part by the costs of nation-building, unpaid-for tax cuts and a continuing failure to address entitlement reform.
There is almost no chance the Democratic-controlled Senate would adopt a resolution along the lines Mr. Ryan is proposing, although his counterpart in the Senate, Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is working on a bipartisan plan to address entitlement spending as part of a broader package to reduce the budget deficit.
