Repeat after me - benefit. Ben-e-fit. Benefit. Social Security is a BENEFIT.

[TorchTheWitch]

16. Sorry, but I think of it as the opposite

Benefits are commonly known as those things you get with a job that you don't have to entirely pay for (and we didn't used to have to pay anything for) like health care, disability, death benefits, etc. Personally, I dislike having these things called benefits as if they're given out of the kindness of the employers' hearts and were never forced to give by law and which employers found it reasonable to charge us for anyway through making us outright pay for a portion of them and through not giving higher salaries or raises so they could make up the difference in having to provide employees with them so they could continue the same or even better profits.

Entitlements are what is commonly known as those things we are entitled to because we paid for them, like Social Security, Medicare, etc. I only disagree with how Repubs sneeringly call them entitlements as if we DON'T pay for them and AREN'T entitled to them when we DO and ARE.