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as defined in section 2(a) 4, or who had not less than 20 years of service, shall be less than $200.

(e) Retirement annuity payments which will have become due an individual but not yet paid at death shall be paid to the same individual or individuals who may be entitled to receive any annuities or lump sums which will have become payable under the provisions of section 4. In the event that an annuity or lump sum benefit is payable under section 4 to two or more individuals by reason of the death of an individual to whom retirement annuity payments were due but unpaid at death, such unpaid retirement annuity payments shall be divided among such individuals in the same ratio as the annuity or benefit payments under section 4.

(f) A retirement annuity shall accrue with respect to the whole of the calendar month in which an annuitant dies, but not thereafter.

(g) After a retirement annuity has begun to accrue it shall not be subject to recompilation on account of service rendered thereafter to an employer except to make allowance for a primary insurance benefit, as specified in subsection (a), and except as provided in the last sentence of section 2(b).

(h) If a retirement annuity is less that $5.00, it may, in the discretion of the Board, be paid quarterly or in a lump sum equal to its commuted value as determined by the Board. In determining such commuted value any primary insurance benefit which is or may become payable shall be disregarded.

(i) In the event military service is or has been used as the basis or as a partial basis for a pension, disability compensation, or any other gratuitous benefits payable on a periodic basis under any other Act of Congress, any retirement annuity under this Act which is based in part on such