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(g) After a retirement annuity has begun to accrue it shall not be subject to recomputation on account of service rendered thereafter to an employer, and except as provided in the last sentence of section 2(d).

(h) If a retirement annuity is less than $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 military service and is payable with respect to a calendar month for all or part of which such pension or other benefit is also payable, shall be reduced with respect to that month by the proportion which the number of years of service by which such military service increases the years of service bears to the total years of service, or by the aggregate amount of such pension or other benefit with respect to that month, whichever would result in the smaller reduction, PROVIDED That in no case shall such annuity after reduction be smaller than the amount which would be payable if there were no military service.

ANNUITIES AND LUMP SUMS FOR SURVIVORS

SECTION 4.

(a) Widow's Insurance Annuity.-- A widow of a wholly insured pilot, who will have attained the age of sixty, shall be entitled during the remainder of her life, or, if she remarries, then until remarriage, to an annuity for each month equal to three-fourths of such pilot's insurance amount.

(b) Widow's Current Insurance Annuity. -- A widow of a wholly or temporarily insured pilot, who is not entitled to an annuity under subsection (a) and who at the time of filing an application for an annuity under this subsection will have in her care a child of such pilot entitled to receive an annuity under subsection (c) shall be entitled to an annuity for each month equal to three-fourths of the pilot's insurance amount. Such annuity shall cease upon her death, upon her remarriage, when she becomes entitled to an annuity under subsection (a), or when no child of the deceased pilot is entitled to receive an annuity under subsection (c), whichever occurs first.

(c) Child's Insurance Annuity.--Every child of a pilot who will have died wholly or temporarily insured shall be entitled, for so long as such child lives and meets the qualifications set forth in paragraph (1) of subsection (j), to an annuity for each month equal to one-half of the pilot's insurance amount.

(d) Parent's Insurance Annuity.--Every parent of a wholly insured pilot, who will have died leaving no widow and no child, if such parent was sixty years of age or over if a mother, or sixty-five years of age or over of a father, shall be entitled, for life, or if such parent remarries after the pilot's death, then until such remarriage, to an