---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.405"
title: "20"
number: "10.405"
heading: "Who is considered a dependent in a claim based on disability or impairment?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.405"
---

# §10.405. Who is considered a dependent in a claim based on disability or impairment?

- (a) Dependents include a wife or husband; an unmarried child under 18 years of age; an unmarried child over 18 who is incapable of self-support; a student, until he or she reaches 23 years of age or completes four years of school beyond the high school level; or a wholly dependent parent.
- (b) Augmented compensation payable for an unmarried child, which would otherwise terminate when the child reached the age of 18, may be continued while the child is a student as defined in [5 U.S.C. 8101(17)](/usc/5/8101.md?p=17).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.