Sentence examples for earned entitlement from inspiring English sources

So a sense of earned entitlement is incredibly important for welfare legitimacy.

Given that freedom of movement exists across Europe, a rational debate about tough conditionality and earned entitlement is needed to avoid further myths arising.

Best of all, though, it would give pensioners an honoured category of their own, underlining the idea of the state pension as neither a privilege nor a handout, but an earned entitlement – and a pretty ungenerous one at that.

In fact, because social insurance commands wide popularity, countries that eschew "welfare rights" for systems of earned entitlement often end up redistributing far more to the poorest than we do.

It is an earned entitlement.

In the early days of Social Security, politicians and bureaucrats occasionally talked of it as an "earned entitlement".

Many people, e.g., Jonathan Chait, are noting that when Paul Ryan, deeply offended by the inaugural speech, declared that No one is suggesting that what we call our earned entitlements — entitlements you pay for, like payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security — are putting you in a 'taker' category.

This means that anyone carrying out one of these activities at the moment not only earns entitlement towards the basic state pension (which is worth a maximum of £107.45 per week) but will also be earning an extra entitlement on top from the state second pension.

Meanwhile, in a speech last week in Thurrock, scene of a Ukip triumph in the recent elections, Ed Miliband pledged tougher measures including an end to the undercutting of wages, an insistence that employees in the public sector speak English and measures to ensure that immigrants "earn entitlements".

With the completion of a second contract they earned an entitlement for a free passage to India, or they could stay in Fiji.

I felt that if found a way to do that, then I would somehow earn the entitlement to make my own record".