Sentence examples for security entitlements from inspiring English sources

Uruguay's law, passed in late 2007, allows couples of any sex to enter into a civil union after they live together for at least five years, entitling them to most of the benefits of married couples, including Social Security entitlements and inheritance rights.

Spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security entitlements must be curbed, and taxes must go up — on the affluent and perhaps the middle class, too.

Providing a substantial one-time tax credit to the rich beneficiaries who choose to forgo their Social Security entitlements would be an appropriate first step toward that vision.

It said this trend was likely to increase as these groups' access to social security entitlements and homelessness support access was squeezed.

We need to cut Medicare and Social Security entitlements at the same time as we make new investments in infrastructure, schools and government-financed research programs that will spawn the next Google and Intel.

"In many countries, it is the middle class who are the direct beneficiaries of social security entitlements," the analysts Patrick Diamond and Guy Lodge wrote in a paper for the Policy Network, a British research group.

This means already hard-up people are left for weeks without cash before their social security entitlement comes through.

I recommend that Alicia H. Munnell and Andrew G. Biggs spend a full year trying to live on the Social Security entitlement.

The deficit-conscious freshman class, he said, "probably tips the scale" toward a willingness to curb the costly Medicare and Social Security entitlement programs that earlier lawmakers considered too politically risky.

Research from Cheshire Hunger, Emergency Use Only and Below the Breadline point to three drivers: severe reductions in social security entitlement and levels, low-waged and insecure employment, and rising household expenditure, especially costs related to housing, utilities and food.

[Page A14.] Mr. Bush's speech tonight, analogous to a State of the Union address but without that title, represented his best, most visible opportunity to make his case, not only for a tax cut but also for his education proposals and his plan for a partial privatization of the Social Security entitlement program.