eligibility requirement

Examples of eligibility requirement in the following topics:

• Eligibility

  • Eligibility requirements restrict who can run for a given public office.
  • Different voting jurisdictions set different eligibility requirements for candidates to run for office.
  • Virtually all electoral systems, whether partisan or non-partisan, have some minimum eligibility requirements to run for office.
  • Over the years, multiple presidential candidates have been born in foreign countries or U.S. territories, but have met the natural born citizenship eligibility requirement because they were born to American citizens.
  • In offices other than that of the President, eligibility requirements tend to be less stringent.

• Social Insurance

  • Social insurance has been defined as a program where risks are transferred to and pooled by an organization (often governmental) that is legally required to provide certain benefits.
  • The benefits, eligibility requirements, and other aspects of the program are defined by statute;
  • The program serves a defined population, and participation is either compulsory, or the program is subsidized heavily enough that most eligible individuals choose to participate.

• Voting as Political Participation

  • Voting is the most quintessential form of political participation, although many eligible voters do not vote in elections.
  • To register, citizens must meet eligibility requirements and have filed the necessary paperwork that permits them to vote in a given locality.
  • Eligibility requirements require voters to be eighteen years of age, and states can enforce residency requirements that mandate the number of years a person must live in a place before being eligible to vote.
  • Over time, residency requirements were relaxed.
  • In 2010, only about 23 percent of eligible eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds cast a ballot.

• A Halfway Revolution

  • Social programs in the United States compromise a set of programs that are designed to subsidize the needs of the general U.S. population, but with various eligibility requirements and provided by various organizations: federal, state, local agencies, and private organizations.
  • The main programs are mandatory and universal primary and secondary education at the local level, subsidized college education, unemployment disability insurance, income subsidies for eligible low wage workers, housing subsidies, food stamps, pensions for eligible persons, and health insurance programs that cover public employees.

• S-Corporations (S-Corps)

  • Unlike a C corporation, an S corporation is not eligible for a dividends received deduction, nor is it subject to the ten percent of taxable income limitation applicable to charitable contribution deductions.
  • In order to be eligible for S corporation status, a corporation must meet certain requirements:
  • Be an eligible entity (a domestic corporation, or a limited liability company which has elected to be taxed as a corporation)

• The Purpose of Elections

  • However, in the European Union, one can vote in municipal elections if one lives in the municipality and is an EU citizen; the nationality of the country of residence is not required.
  • Citizens become eligible to vote after reaching the voting age, which is typically eighteen years old as of 2012 in the United States.
  • However, in the European Union, one can vote in municipal elections if one lives in the municipality and is an EU citizen; the nationality of the country of residence is not required.
  • In some countries, voting is required by law.
  • If an eligible voter does not cast a vote, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as a small fine.

• Elective Expensing

  • . § 179) allows a taxpayer to elect to deduct the cost of certain types of property on their income taxes as an expense, rather than requiring the cost of the property to be capitalized and depreciated.
  • Buildings were not eligible for section 179 deductions prior to the passage of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010; however, qualified real property may now be deducted.
  • Depreciable property that is not eligible for a section 179 deduction is still deductible over a number of years through MACRS depreciation according to sections 167 and 168.
  • The 179 election is optional, and the eligible property may be depreciated according to sections 167 and 168 if preferable for tax reasons.

• Regulating Campaign Finance

  • Eligibility requirements must be fulfilled to qualify for a government subsidy, and those that do accept government funding are usually subject to spending limits.
  • During the primaries, in exchange for agreeing to limit his or her spending according to a statutory formula, eligible candidates receive matching payments for the first $250 of each individual contribution (up to half of the spending limit).
  • In addition to primary matching funds, the public funding program also assists with financing the major parties' (and eligible minor parties') presidential nominating conventions and funding the major party (and eligible minor party) nominees' general election campaigns.
  • In 2012, each major party is entitled to $18.2 million in public funds for their conventions, and the parties' general election nominees are eligible to receive $91.2 million in public funds.

• Income Security Policy and Policy Making

  • While assistance is often in the form of financial payments, those eligible for social welfare can usually access health and educational services free of charge.
  • The amount of support is enough to cover basic needs and eligibility is often subject to a comprehensive and complex assessment of an applicant's social and financial situation.
  • Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need (for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities, and very old people).

• Democratic Governments

  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • Currently in Switzerland, single majorities are sufficient at the town, city, and canton level, but at the national level, double majorities are required on constitutional matters.