Cuts in education and in the entitlement to and payment rates of welfare benefits generated greater demand for social services.
The law would not exclude EU citizens currently in employment from entitlement to welfare payments, or those who have rights to payments because they have worked.
But now it has disposed of the loss-maker to US group Organogenesis, with no upfront payment but an entitlement to $300m in milestone payments if Dermagraft meets certain sales targets.
"Even without an appropriation, health plans still have a statutory entitlement to cost-sharing payments," University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley wrote in a legal blog.
The proposals, made by Charlie McCreevy, the commissioner for the internal market, would extend to performers the entitlements to royalty payments already received by their counterparts in the United States, and by composers in Europe, most of whom have 70 years of copyright protection.
To focus on the role of unemployment benefits, no social assistance or housing-related benefits are considered (see Figure 1 for "all-in" replacement rates including these safety-net benefits) and any entitlements to severance payments are also excluded.
We discuss the main characteristics of these groups and comment on these results in the context of current UK agri-environmental policy, which is changing both the presumptions of farmers' entitlements to agricultural payments, and the expectations pertaining to farmers in relation to environmental responsibilities.
It was closely followed by Scottish & Newcastle, 14.25p lighter at 384p, and Diageo, 20p lower at 687.5p, as both traded ex-dividend - or without entitlement to their latest dividend payment.
A sense of entitlement to free medicines, after payment of taxes, was expressed, again this has been reported elsewhere [ 20].
