[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2, Parts 700 to 1199]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR837.603]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 837--REEMPLOYMENT OF ANNUITANTS--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart F--Death Benefits
 
Sec. 837.603  Increased survivor benefits.

    (a) Supplemental survivor annuity. (1) If an annuitant reemployed 
subject to the provisions of this part dies while so reemployed, and the 
annuitant would have been entitled to a supplemental annuity, had the 
separation been for reasons other than death, and there is a spousal 
survivor annuity payable (including a survivor annuity payable to a 
former spouse, if the annuitant retired under FERS) the amount of the 
spousal survivor annuity will, if any necessary deposit for service 
credit is made, be

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increased by 55 percent of the supplemental annuity, if the reemployed 
annuitant was retired under CSRS, or 50 percent of the supplemental 
annuity, if the reemployed annuitant was retired under FERS.
    (2) Supplemental survivor annuity benefits payable under this 
paragraph, computed in whole or in part under the provisions of 
Sec. 837.503(b)(1)(i) of this part, using CSRS-Offset service, are 
subject to reduction under subpart G of this part.
    (b) Redetermined survivor annuity. If an annuitant reemployed 
subject to the provisions of this part dies while so reemployed, and the 
annuitant would have been entitled to elect a redetermined annuity, had 
the separation been for reasons other than death, and if there is a 
spousal survivor annuity payable (including a survivor annuity payable 
to a former spouse, if the annuitant retired under FERS), a person 
entitled to a spousal survivor annuity may elect to have his or her 
survivor annuity computed as if the annuitant had elected a redetermined 
annuity, provided any necessary deposit for service credit is made.