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Monthly installments.

Computa t i o n of annuitie s.

Definitions.

Service credit.

S i m u l t a n e i t y of annuities.

PUBLIC LAW 86-87-JULY 13, 1959

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"Second, if there is no executor or administrator payment may be made after the expiration of thirty days from the date of death of such survivor, to such individual or individuals as may appear in the judgment of the General Counsel of the General Accounting Office to be legally entitled thereto, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery by Buy other individual. " (m) Annuities granted under the terms of this section shall accrue monthly and shall be due and payable in monthly installments on the first Inisiness day of the month following the month or other period for which the annuity shall have accrued. None of the moneys mentioned in this section shall be assignable, either in law or equity, or subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process. " (n) The annuity of a widow of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General who has elected to bring himself within the purview of this section shall be an amount equal to the sum of (1) 1 ^ per centum of the average annual salary received by him for service as Comptroller General and any other prior allowable service during the last five years of such service multiplied by the sum of his years of service as Comptroller General, his years of service as a Senator, Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner in the Congress of the United States, his years of prior allowable military service and his years, not exceeding fifteen, of prior allowable service as a congressional employee and (2) three-quarters of 1 per centum of such average annual salary multiplied by his years of any other allowable service, but such annuity shall not exceed 37i/^ per centum of such average annual salary and shall be further reduced in accordance with subsection (d) of this section if applicable. ''*(o) As used in subsection (n) the term 'service as a congressional employee' means service as defined in section 1(c) of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved July 31, 1956, 70 Stat. 743 (5 U.S.C. 2251). The term 'allowable military service' means honorable active service not exceeding five years in the aggregate in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, including service in the National Guard only when ordered to active duty m the service of the United States, when such military service is not creditable for purposes of retirement or retired pay under any other provision of law. The term 'other prior allowable service' means civilian service as an officer or employee of the United States or the District of Columbia, not otherwise covered by category (1) of subsection (n). " (p) The total service of a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General shall be the full years and twelfth parts thereof, excluding from the aggregate the fractional part of a month, if any. "(q) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent a widow or dependent child eligible therefor from simultaneously receiving an annuity under this section and any annuity (including old age and survivor benefits) to which she would otherwise be entitled under any other law without regard to this section, but, in computing such other annuity service used in the computation of an annuity under this section shall not be credited. " (r) The amiuities and refund of deposits authorized in this section shall be paid from appropriations of the General Accounting Office." Approved July 13, 1959.

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