Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 1.djvu/1044

 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 757-OCT. 8, 1940 Beneficiary. Payments. Determination of beneficiary if none designated, etc. Restriction on in- stallment payments. Monthly payments less than $5. Payments to desig- nated persons. paid up, and extended values, dividends from gains and savings, refund of unearned premiums, and such other provisions as may be found to be reasonable and practicable, may be provided for in the policy of insurance or from time to time by regulations promulgated by the Administrator. (g) The insurance shall be payable only to a widow, widower, child (including a stepchild or an illegitimate child if designated as benefi- ciary by the insured), parent (including person in loco parentis if designated as beneficiary by the insured), brother or sister of the insured. The insured shall have the right to designate the beneficiary or beneficiaries of the insurance, but only within the classes herein provided, and shall, subject to regulations, at all times have the right to change the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such insurance without the consent of such beneficiary or beneficiaries but only within the classes herein provided. (h) Such insurance shall be payable in the following manner: (1) If the beneficiary to whom payment is first made is under thirty years of age at the time of maturity, in two hundred and forty equal monthly installments. (2) If the beneficiary to whom payment is first made is thirty or more years of age at the time of maturity, in equal monthly installments for one hundred and twenty months certain, with such payments continuing during the remaining lifetime of such beneficiary. (3) Any installments certain of insurance remaining unpaid at the death of any beneficiary shall be paid in equal monthly installments in an amount equal to the monthly installments paid to the first beneficiary, to the person or persons then in being within the classes hereinafter specified and in the order named, unless designated by the insured in a different order- (A) to the widow or widower of the insured, if living; (B) if no widow or widower, to the child or children of the insured, if living, in equal shares; (C) if no widow, widower, or child, to the parent or parents of the insured, if living, in equal shares; (D) if no widow, widower, child, or parent, to the brothers and sisters of the insured, if living, in equal shares. (i) If no beneficiary is designated by the insured or if the desig- nated beneficiary does not survive the insured, the beneficiary shall be determined in accordance with the order specified in subsection (h) (3) of this section and the insurance shall be payable in equal monthly installments in accordance with subsection (h) (1) or (2), as the case may be. The right of any beneficiary to payment of any installments shall be conditioned upon his or her being alive to receive such payments. No person shall have a vested right to any installment or installments of any such insurance and any install- ments not paid to a beneficiary during such beneficiary's lifetime shall be paid to the beneficiary or beneficiaries within the permitted class next entitled to priority, as provided in subsection (h). (j) No installments of such insurance shall be paid to the heirs or legal representatives as such of the insured or of any beneficiary, and in the event that no person within the permitted class survives to receive the insurance or any part thereof no payment of the unpaid installments shall be made. (k) When the amount of an individual monthly payment is less than $5, such amount may, in the discretion of the Administrator, be allowed to accumulate without interest and be disbursed annually. (1) Any payments of insurance made to a person represented by the insured to be within the permitted class of beneficiaries shall be 1010 [54 STAT.

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