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remarry, would be entitiled to $68.18 per month beginning at 60 and running for th balance of her life. Not all pilots who die after getting a salary of case 2(b) leave a widow and children of 9 and 12. Some don't marry. Some leave widows and children closer to 21 or over 21. Some widows remarry quickly; some die and so on. What is the average payment?

To answer this question, figures used for railroad workers of pilot age have been used. It may be that railroad workers of pilot age have more children than pilots do. (When all the pilot questionnaires are in we will know how many children pilots have.) The railroad figures are based on children and their widowed mothers getting benefits as long as a child is under 18; and the pension for the old widow begins at 65. The pilot ages are 21 and 60, which means longer payments than under the railroad retirement system. The railroad figures will not be recalculated until figures based on the pilot questionnaires are ready. For this memorandum the old railroad figures are used. They probably understate the average value of death benefits under the A.L.P.A. Plan. The figures are given in Table D. They are the present values of the benefits as of the date of the pilot's death. For example, if a child has a benefit of $45 a month, payable for 10 years, the present value of the benefit is about $4,600 as compared with $5,400 assumed to be paid to the child. The widows' benefits take account of the possibility of remarriage and the probability of death before 60 and while getting a pension during the period she has a minor child.

When a pilot in the Eastern Plan dies he gets back what he puts in with interest at 2 percent after the end of the policy year