Criticism of the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill (Laspo) comes despite late concessions by the Ministry of Justice last week, ensuring that children who suffer brain damage at birth retain entitlement to legal aid.
A spokesman for the DVLA said: "In the majority of these cases, magistrates may have decided to allow drivers to retain their entitlement to drive where it is considered that disqualification would cause exceptional hardship.
On return to work they continue on reduced pay to pay back that time but retain their pension entitlements throughout.
Did Alan Johnson cave in to union pressure when he allowed existing civil servants and other public sector workers to retain full pension entitlements at age 60? Or did he in fact win a victory over the forces of rampant public expenditure by securing union agreement to a future retirement age of 65?
President Obama wants to retain Medicare as an entitlement in which the federal government pays for a defined set of medical services.
For conservatives who rely on the subjugation of women to retain a sense of "natural" entitlement to authority, the state's defence of female autonomy must be terrifying.
Entitlements help recruit and retain personnel.
The Arab spring laid bare both the US's and Europe's waning influence on the world, while demands to retain the chairmanship of the IMF smack of anachronistic entitlement against the rising power of more dynamic developing economies.
The suggestion is that a failure to attend to wider integration issues, such as family reunification, residency and citizenship entitlements, will result in a failure to attract or retain skilled workers such as nurses for whom there continues to be a demand.
They may provide training in-house and seek to retain the employee by inducements such as the prospect of career progression, pension entitlements, and other devices designed to encourage loyalty and an "organizational orientation".
Democrats are insisting on expanded unemployment benefits, including new assistance to help jobless people retain or buy health insurance, that Republicans criticize as an expensive new entitlement program.
