"Legal entitlement" refers to rights or benefits that are granted to a person under the law. It means that you have a legitimate claim or permission to something based on the rules and regulations established by the legal system. Full definition
However, the assessment of means will normally reflect the actual extent to which the claimant benefits from the income of the holding, rather than the strictly legal entitlement, as follows. (welfare.ie)
A set of legal entitlements such as Britain has become has no more reality than the Empire did in the 60s when buffers were still to be found lamenting it. (nextleft.org)
Religion paves the moral main street of a white - clapboard America inhabited by independent individuals who lend each other a helping hand to earn their own way, support their own families and worship their own God, instead of depending for handouts on a welfare state that regulates hardworking individuals out of existence and replaces Christian charity with legal entitlements. (religion-online.org)