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The former MP acknowledged that would mean some young people losing out on benefits, arguing the system should focus on helping people into work rather than keeping them dependent on welfare.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
The “VA Aid & Attendance Benefit” provides tax-free payments to some veterans, their dependent spouses, or surviving spouses.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
But if relentless missile strikes lead to a humanitarian crisis and bring Ukraine’s economy to a standstill, they could leave the country evermore dependent on European financing to cover the rising cost of the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Rather than being entirely dependent on water delivered from elsewhere in the solar system, the growing planet may have possessed the ingredients needed to manufacture water through its own chemical reactions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Quarterly premiums will rise from $375 to $390 for one participant, with higher amounts for added dependents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
During the Covid pandemic, Congress approved payouts to income-eligible tax filers and their dependents only, a narrower approach that would lower the cost further.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
I live in California, am single with no children or dependents, rent rather than own, have no mortgage, and am in the 24% federal tax bracket.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Created in the early 1990s, private-placement life insurance takes advantage of tax-code provisions intended to encourage people to provide for their dependents using life insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
One morning, we were summoned to the dining-room — the servants, the family, the dependents — and told that there the sole hope of our College awaited us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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