Sentence examples for entitlements increased from inspiring English sources

In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some households.

So, the sense of entitlement increased people's judgments of the time the survey took to complete.

The only way to avoid that face-off is to devise some sort of enforcement mechanism before New Year's Eve that would mandate action on entitlements and increased revenue next year.

Public sector union Prospect claims chancellor George Osborne's changes to the way workers' pension entitlements are increased will result in an overall loss of about £110bn – greater than the estimated £100bn Gordon Brown's tax raid on dividends cost private sector schemes.

But no one should be too impressed with the White House bravado -- Washington's core financial problem has less to do with increased spending than it does with the Bush administration's determined choking off of government revenues, even as it supports new entitlements and increased military and homeland security spending.

In 1988 the U.K. reformed the main in-work transfer programmes for low income households with children: the value of cash transfer entitlements were increased but conditional eligibility to associated in-kind nutrition programmes for children was removed.

For both Family Credit and child nutrition programmes we exploit the fact that the data spans the reform in 1988: Family Credit entitlements were increased and associated in-kind transfers lost.

Specifically, overall government spending on entitlement programs increased at a 4.8 annual rate in the 40 years between 1972 and 2011, net of inflation.

"We need to institute a gradual solution for entitlements" like increasing retirement ages, Senator Paul says, "or we might need quick ones".

Interestingly, the punditocracy, which hails Mr. Ryan as having political courage, often fails to note that he was a member of the bipartisan commission led by Alan K. Simpson and Erskine B. Bowles that recommended a comparable debt-reduction plan by both cutting back on entitlements and increasing taxes.

The new Republican rules will gut pay-as-you-go because they require offsets only for entitlement increases, not for tax cuts.