dependents

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The Social Security Disability Insurance program, on the other hand, is a federal, payroll-tax-funded insurance program that provides cash benefits to disabled workers and their eligible dependents.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

That followed an earlier move this week to evacuate dependents in the embassy in Lebanon.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

"We don't have children, a house or any dependents or commitments," said Sarah.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Australia instructed the dependents of diplomats in Israel and Lebanon to leave and offered voluntary evacuations for diplomats’ families in Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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