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Decreases or increases in the total of annuities payable for a month with respect to the death of a pilot shall be equally apportioned among all annuities in such total. An annuity under this section which is not in excess of $5.00 may, in the discretion of the Board, be paid in a lump sum equal to its commuted value as the Board shall determine.

(1) When Annuities Begin and End. No individual shall be entitled to receive an annuity under this section for any month before July 1, 1949. An application for any payment under this section shall be made and filed in such manner and form as the Board prescribes. An annuity under this section for an individual otherwise entitled thereto shall begin (not earlier than the month in which the pilot on the basis of whose compensation and service the annuity is based died), with the month in which such individual filed an application for such annuity: PROVIDED, That such individual's annuity shall begin with the first month for which he will otherwise have been entitled to receive such annuity if he filed such application prior to the end of the third month immediately succeeding such month. No application for an annuity under this section filed prior to three months before the first month for which the applicant becomes otherwise entitled to receive such annuity shall be accepted. No annuity shall be payable after the end of the month in which the recipient thereof ceases to be qualified therefor.

(j) Definitions. -- For the purpose of this section the term "pilot" includes an individual who will have been a pilot, and

1. The qualifications for "widow", "child", and "parent" shall be, except for the purpose of subsection (f), those set forth in section 209 (j) and (k), and section 202 (f) (3) of the Social Security Act, respectively; and in addition--

(i) a "widow" shall have been living with her husband pilot at the time of his death;

(ii) a "child" shall have been dependent upon its parent pilot at the time of his death; shall not be adopted after such death; shall be unmarried; and less than twenty-one years of age; and

(iii) a "parent" shall have been chiefly dependent upon and supported at the time of his death by the pilot to whom the relationship of "parent" is claimed; and shall have filed proof of such dependency and support within two years after such date of death, or within six months after July 1, 1949.

A "widow" or a "child" shall be deemed to have been so living with a husband or so dependent upon a parent if the conditions set forth in section 209 (n) or section 202 (c) (3) or (4) of the Social Security Act, respectively, are fulfilled. In determining whether an applicant is the wife, widow, child, or parent of a pilot as claimed, the rules set forth in section 209 (m) of the Social Security Act shall be applied.

2. For each three months of service, including military service, rendered after 1936 and before July 1, 1949, there shall be on "prior quarter of coverage."

3. The term "subsequent quarter of coverage" means (A) a calendar quarter after June 30, 1949, in which the individual has been