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We assessed the town's eligibility for an Historic District designation.
The representative says the current eligibility requirements for the adapted housing programme are fair.
Clients must meet all clinical and financial eligibility criteria.

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eligibility | Business English

eligibility
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌelɪdʒəˈbɪləti/us
the fact of being allowed to do or receive something because you satisfy certain conditions:
The poverty level is the official measure used to decide eligibility for federal health, housing, nutrition, and child care benefits.

Examples of eligibility

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Income-based eligibility for formal home care might encourage greater use among older persons with low incomes.
Still, the contradicting presence of more gender dysphoria in childhood but less at application should alert the clinician when assessing eligibility.
This is abundantly clear in community care practices, with managerialist definitions and re-definitions of need and eligibility criteria that shape the whole picture of care.
Once referred to the study, children underwent testing to verify their eligibility to participate in the study and their grouping.
The relative value of participation in the two plans changes dramatically when the worker reaches early retirement eligibility in the traditional plan.
First, the government changed the rules of eligibility for urban funding so that bidding groups outside the old programme areas could apply.
Eligibility was limited to 'those who because of physical or mental limitations are unable to act in their own behalf'.
The tax system easily adapted to new eligibility requirements and benefit structures.
By 1600, the minimum age limits of marital eligibility may have been higher and generally more uniform than they had been in the fifteenth century.
I am therefore skeptical that the first simulated policy reform (an increase in the eligibility age) delivers meaningful results.
Similarly, eligibility rules for income support payments rarely recognise the parenting responsibilities of non-resident parents.
To ensure that benefits do not exceed contributions a tight limit has been set on eligibility and total payments.
As a consecutive series over a 12-month period, 491 persons met eligibility requirements and 410 (83 %) were recruited into the study.
This is a model that emphasises the poverty-prevention function of pension policy, restricting eligibility to the needy population.
We modified the program so that the nurses could judge the final eligibility of referral using the result of the screening.
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