Sentence examples for entitlements will be cut from inspiring English sources
But future entitlements will be cut back, in some cases substantially, hitting younger public-sector workers hardest.
Ahead of next month's Budget, in which Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give more details of which entitlements will be cut, Labour has warned of a likely cut to the £29bn annual tax credit bill.
Holiday entitlement will be cut from 30 to 15 days, social security and life insurance will be reduced, and two annual bonuses and severance pay will disappear.
News that so-called entitlement funding will be cut from 114 to 30 hours per student per year trickled out from the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) two days before Christmas.
These dinners are not of course free, and as yet we don't know whose taxes will be raised or where spending will be cut for this new universal entitlement.
Entitlements can be cut back, most obviously by raising pensionable ages.
But, today, neither party is generating that mandate — talking seriously enough about the taxes that will have to be raised or the entitlement spending that will have to be cut to put us on sustainable footing, let alone offering an inspired vision of American renewal that might motivate such sacrifice.
