Entitlement Program shouldn t redirect here Entitlement programs and the concept of Entitlement are two different things Programs such as Social Security and earned benefits such as the G I Bill which people pay into in a manner similar to employers matching IRA contributions are considered Entitlements and the programs they come from Entitlement Programs The words entitlement program are being used more and more often in United States politics in a manner that is further and further divorced from the concept of entitlement itself To put this another way I don t believe people who spend four years defending their country in order to earn the right to go to college believe to be grouped together with narcissists and I definitely don t think that anything that might eventually be referred to legally or politically as an Entitlement Program deserves the negative connotation that pages such as this can cause I m trying to find a good legal definition of Entitlement Program and will create a section on this page for the time being with that information I intend to grow it out until there is enough information in that section for an entire page I m wondering whether it would be a good idea to discuss earned and unearned entitlements