entitlement

1. The act or process of entitling.
2. The state of being entitled.
3. A government program that guarantees and provides benefits to a particular group: “fights . . . to preserve victories won a generation ago, like the Medicaid entitlement for the poor” (Jason DeParle).

1. The right to develop land with government approvals for Zoning density, utility installations, occupancy permits, use permits, streets.
Example: A land speculator purchased 500 acres of land in a Rurban Area, then gained entitlements for the land by working with the town's political workings and engineering personnel. She then sold the land to a Developer for a handsome profit.

2. (VA loan) dollar amount of loan Guarantee that the Veterans' Benefit Administration (VA) provides to each eligible veteran. VA loan guarantees are available to military veterans who served in the armed services during specified war periods. The guarantee allows the veteran to borrow money to buy a home without the need for a cash Down Payment. Generally, Lenders will lend up to four times the amount of the entitlement with no cash investment by the borrower.
Example: William served in the army during the Gulf War and received an entitlement of $25,000 toward a VA mortgage. When he applied for a mortgage the bank lent him the entire amount to buy the $100,000 home.

The set of alternative bundles of commodities over which a person can establish command; the word ‘command’ emphasizes that control over commodities is a power relationship (A. Sen 1981; J. Drèze and A. Sen 1989). Entitlement sets include the full range of resources available to an individual for the realization of her or his potential, and include extended entitlements; rights of access to resources which are socially sanctioned, although not legally binding, such as the right of elderly parents to support from their children. Famine may be seen as an entitlement failure.

A claim or right defended by reference to what has already occurred, or an established procedure, particularly previous authorization under such a procedure. For example, a police officer may be entitled to enter premises by a search warrant. Robert Nozick, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), propounded a historical entitlement theory of justice which depends on the pedigree of titles to property. According to this theory, individuals have natural rights and these ground the legitimate original acquisition (creating titles to property). These entitlements defeat the claims of others, including a state, to those holdings, reducing the scope for redistribution to compensation for rights-violations.

— Andrew Reeve

An individual's right to receive a value or benefit provided by law.

Commonly recognized entitlements are benefits, such as those provided by Social Security or workers' compensation.

Federal programs, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, that disburse money according to fixed formulas to citizens who fall into designated categories. Because entitlements do not require annual congressional appropriations, their cost tends to rise steadily and, in the view of some, out of control.

Entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits because of rights, or by agreement through law. It also refers, in a more casual sense to someone's belief that one is deserving of some particular reward or benefit.^[1] It is often used as a pejorative term in popular parlance (i.e. a 'sense of entitlement').

Contents 1 Terminology 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Terminology

The legal term, however, carries no value judgment: it simply denotes a right granted. For example in the United States of America, social security is an entitlement program.^[2]

In clinical psychology and psychiatry, an unrealistic, exaggerated, or rigidly held sense of entitlement may be considered a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

In Land Development, the Entitlement Process is the legal method of obtaining approvals for the right to develop property for a desired use. (example: Re-zone)

In computer security, Entitlement can also refer to access control.

See also

• Culture of entitlement
• Entitlement (fair division)
• Entitlement Theory
• Amartya Sen

References

1. ^ http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20030828.html
2. ^ "Federal entitlement programs more costly". http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10609044/. 

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