What is the substantive difference between a government employment program and entitlements in your view? Is it that people don't have to do the performative f

What is the substantive difference between a government employment program and entitlements in your view? Is it that people don't have to do the performative function of working for an entitlement? Note that Social Security, pretty much the leading entitlement program, requires that you pay into it before being able to draw.