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United States, and they are no more subject to refund than your income taxes, or the taxes on cigarettes or luggage, or any other Federal tax which is properly collected by operation of law,
There are, however, certain benefits payable to your survivors as a result of your death. In order for your survivors to get these benefits, you must have had an insured status at the time of your death.

30. Q. What must I do to have insured status?
A. There are two kinds of insured status. You may be "wholly insured" or "temporarily insured." You are "wholly insured" if you have one "quarter of coverage" for each two quarters which elapse between January 1, 1947 or the first of the quarter in which you attained the age of 27 (whichever is later), and the quarter before the one in which you die or retire or attain the age of 60, provided you have at lease six quarters of coverage. After you have 40 "quarters of coverage" you will be "wholly insured" for the rest of your life.

31. Q. What is a "quarter of coverage"?
A. A "quarter of coverage" with respect to the period before 1948 is three months of service. If you served as a pilot for five years before 1948 and performed some service in each month in the five years, you would have 20 "quarters of coverage." After 1947 a "quarter of coverage" is a calendar quarter in which you received at least $250 for serving as a pilot or as pay for time lose. Military service counts in the same way as for retirement annuity purposes.