"Why waste my time when they denied me for the first one?" To pay for her daughter's funeral, she says her family depended on contributions from friends, coworkers, and a GoFundMe account.
How much you get depends on contributions you make during your working lifetime.
The monks depend on contributions from other church organizations, private donations and foundation grants.
With corporate interests favoring Republicans, said Mr. Kronberg, the online analyst, Democrats often depend on contributions from trial lawyers.
There isn't much of a budget, and what is there goes toward seeds and soil, so volunteers depend on contributions.
"Any performing arts organization that depends on contributions is going to have to raise even more in contributions the following year," said Robert J. Flanagan, a retired Stanford University economics professor who studies the performing arts.
He quoted the report as saying that unless the United States scaled back its stabilization operations, it would have to reshape its forces to "trade combat capabilities for stabilization capabilities" or depend on contributions of troops from allied countries or the United Nations.
The United Kingdom also gradually moved over to a two-tiered pension, but rights to both tiers depend on contributions paid with credits for absence from work for approved reasons; employers' schemes can be used to provide a specified minimum upper tier of pension.
In a Beveridgean (or pure redistributive pension system) pensions do not depend on contributions to the system.
