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The word 'dependents' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can refer to a person or group of people who rely on someone else for financial support or care. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something that requires something else for support or function. Example: The company offers health insurance coverage for employees and their dependents. Another example: Many military families have to move frequently, causing stress for the dependents who must adapt to new schools and communities.
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The care tradition varies among those who aim to value dependents and dependency work and/or reconceptualize autonomy so that autonomy and dependency are compatible.
Kittay, another example, seeks supportive conditions for those who interact in dependency relations, both dependents and their caregivers, arguing that both must be assisted in order to achieve good care, and therefore justice, for the dependent.
Part of China's phenomenal growth has come from its unprecedentedly low dependency ratio just 38 (this is the number of dependents, children and people over 65, per 100 working adults; it implies the working-age group is almost twice as large as the rest of the population put together).
Part-time or flexible working is, of course, the holy grail for many middle-aged women looking for work – it provides an opportunity to care for dependents without becoming exhausted, and it enables branching out into other things that might provide much needed extra income after retirement.
It was a range of low minimum thresholds where anyone who met them was automatically entitled to come here… …almost on a self-selection basis… …to work and study – and in many cases, to bring their dependents too.
Tax returns can include a host of personal information that can help someone steal an identity, including government old-age pension numbers and birth dates of dependents and spouses.
They are young, single, without dependents and have very little in their bank accounts, so cannot prove satisfactorily that they are "genuine" visitors to the UK and would leave following their performances.
— Tim Aker (@Tim_Aker) May 14 , 2014 Todays labour force survey do not include dependents or those out of work.
But she, too, thinks there is a risk of the fall in inequality petering out.Government cash-transfer programmes to the poor, and demographic changes a smaller proportion of dependents and more women going out to work have played a role in reducing inequality.
The requirement applies to insurance plans that cover children as dependents.
Neither financial openness nor changes of political regime seem to matter much, but a large ratio of workers to dependents reduces the odds of a slowdown.
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