welfare benefits
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
Such benefits are a matter of statutory entitlement for persons qualified to receive them. Their termination involves state action that adjudicates important rights. The constitutional challenge cannot be answered by an argument that public assistance benefits are 'a "privilege" and not a "right.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970).