legal entitlement
What you're owed
A legal entitlement is a right established by law—something a person can claim because statute or regulation guarantees it, not because someone chooses to grant it.
Social Security benefits, Medicare coverage, and unemployment insurance are entitlements: if you meet the eligibility requirements, the government must provide them.
She qualified for the legal entitlement automatically upon turning sixty-five.
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- pension benefitsPayments to retired employees
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
ownership · minimum wage laws · right to work · property rights · possession · usufruct · due process · fair trial · easement · voting rights · food stamps · patent · inheritance · intellectual property · equality · statute law · anti-discrimination · unemployment insurance
legal entitlementprivilege
Exclusive right or benefit
charity · gift · grace · concession · courtesy
legal entitlementprivilege
Exclusive right or benefit
license · disqualification · concession · favor · charitable gift
legal entitlementno standing
Prohibition against stopping
exclusion · deprivation · denial of rights · rightlessness · statelessness
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