True, as Labour points out, some of the fall in measured unemployment reflects a decline in benefit claims due to the tough eligibility rules of the new Jobseeker's Allowance, introduced last year in place of the old Unemployment Benefit.

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Some, however, have questioned whether the large number of plans with different rules and eligibility criteria leads to confusion, reducing the effectiveness of the incentives in increasing retirement savings.

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The BBC's chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, said Treasury officials were trying to work out a definition of the rules surrounding eligibility for the mortgage guarantee scheme that allowed parents to buy a home for their children but not to buy a holiday home.

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The selling of items violates NCAA eligibility rules.

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Like Part A and Social Security, their spending is determined by eligibility and payment rules and gets paid out of a trust fund (the Supplementary Medical Insurance or SMI trust fund).

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They can influence it through choice of rules regarding eligibility, scoring, and fouls (to some extent), but the final combination on display on NBA courts mixes these choices with the unintended consequences of them along with team methods and with the long run evolution of player skills.

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When a state tightens Medicaid eligibility rules, when a doctor refrains from ordering an expensive test, when Congress covers the drug bills of a 65-year-old but not a 64-year-old, that is rationing.

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Orkney MSP said the new rules had resulted in higher levels of penalties due to unintentional errors in livestock paperwork and a new interpretation of land eligibility rules for Single Farm Payment (SFP) claims or Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS).

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