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The “VA Aid & Attendance Benefit” provides tax-free payments to some veterans, their dependent spouses, or surviving spouses.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
The IEA said the outlook for a sustained recovery remained dependent on maritime security, with attacks on tankers and energy infrastructure threatening to disrupt oil flows even as production and exports improve.
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
"We are hugely dependent and these vegetables are coming from really vulnerable parts of the world like south Europe and north Africa - the areas most prone to drought, fires, and overheating," said Fisher.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
A crucial question is whether technological innovation is so dependent on rare inventor-geniuses, and on many idiosyncratic cultural factors, as to defy an understanding of world patterns.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Social Security Disability Insurance program provides cash benefits to disabled workers and their eligible dependents.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 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
The Social Security Disability Insurance program, meanwhile, provides cash benefits to disabled workers and their eligible dependents.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Even after leaving dependents behind, the Ten Thousand were chronically short of food, and their efforts to feed themselves becomes one of this book’s driving themes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Our dependents are now sixteen. They stand on the precipice of adulthood, and it is now up to them to decide what kind of people they will be.”
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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