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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 709-JULY 31, 1946 SEC. 211. Section 3 (f) is amended to read as follows: "Annuity payments which will have become due an individual but will not yet have been paid at death shall be paid to the same indi- vidual or individuals who, in the event that a lump sum will have become payable pursuant to section 5 hereof upon such death, would be entitled to receive such lump sum, in the same manner as, and subject to the same limitations under which, such lump sum would be paid, except that, as determined by the Board, first, brothers and sisters of the deceased, and if there are none such, then grandchildren of the deceased, if living on the date of the determination, shall be entitled to receive payment prior to any payment being made for reimbursement of burial expenses. If there be no individual to whom payment can thus be made, such annuity payments shall escheat to the credit of the Railroad Retirement Account." SEC. 212. Section 4 is repealed, section 3A is renumbered as section 4, subsections (h) and (m) of said section are repealed, and all references to section "3A" are changed to "4". SEC. 213. The heading preceding section 5, and section 5 are amended to read as follows: "ANNUITIES AND LUMP SUMS FOR SURVIVORS "SEC. 5. (a) WIDOW'S INSURANCE ANNUITY. - A widow of a com- pletely insured employee, who will have attained the age of sixty-five, 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 employee's basic amount. "(b) WIDOW'S CURRENT INSURANCE ANNUITY.- A widow of a com- pletely or partially insured employee, 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 employee entitled to receive an annuity under subsection (c) shall be entitled to an annuity for each month equal to three-fourths of the employee's basic 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 employee is entitled to receive an annuity under subsection (c), whichever occurs first. "(c) CHILD'S INSURANCE ANNUrrY.- Every child of an employee who will have died completely or partially insured shall be entitled, for so long as such child lives and meets the qualifications set forth in paragraph (1) of subsection (1), to an annuity for each month equal to one-half of the employee's basic amount. "(d) PARENT'S INSURANCE ANNUrrT.-Each parent, sixty-five years of age or over, of a completely insured employee, who will have died leaving no widow and no child, shall be entitled, for life, or, if such parent remarries after the employee's death, then until such remar- riage, to an annuity for each month equal to one-half of the employee's basic amount. "(e) When there is more than one employee with respect to whose death a parent or child is entitled to an annuity for a month, such annuity shall be one-half of whichever employee's basic amount is greatest. "(f) LumP-sux PAYMENT. - Upon the death, on or after January 1, 1947, of a completely or partially insured employee who will have died leaving no widow, child, or parent who would on proper application therefor be entitled to receive an annuity under this section for the month in which such death occurred, there shall be paid a lump sum of eight times the employee's basic amount to the following person (or if more than one there shall be distributed among them) whose relationship to the deceased employee will have 729 50 Stat. 311. 45U.S.C. §228c (f). Payment to survi- vors. 50 Stat. 312. 45U.S.C.I228e; Supp. V, § 228 (e). Infra. 50 Stat. 311; 54 Stat. 1014. 45 U. S. C. §§228d, 228c-1; Supp. V, 1228c-1. 50 Stat. 312. 45U. .C. § 228e; Supp. V, I 228e. Pod, p . 733. When more than one employee.

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