[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR19.11-3]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 19_BENEFITS FOR SPOUSES AND FORMER SPOUSES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE FOREIGN 
 
Sec.  19.11-3  Regular survivor annuity for a spouse.

    (a) In the absence of a joint election or a spousal agreement to the 
contrary, a participant or former participant who is separated from 
active service on or after February 15, 1981 who is married at the 
commencement of his/her annuity shall provide a regular survivor annuity 
for a spouse under Sec.  19.10-2 equal to the maximum amount that 
remains available under limitations stated in paragraph (b) of that 
section after allowing for any commitment of a regular survivor annuity 
for a former spouse who has not remarried prior to age 60 and who is 
alive on the date the former participant becomes eligible for an 
annuity.
    (b) A regular survivor annuity is also payable to a surviving spouse 
for whom a principal elected an annuity under Sec.  19.10-3, Sec.  
19.10-4, or Sec.  19.11-2(c) following a marriage after comencement of 
his/her annuity.

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    (c) The amount of a regular survivor annuity equals 55 percent of 
the base designated for the benefit at the time the principal's annuity 
commenced, adjusted by the total percentage of cost-of-living increases 
the principal was receiving at death.
    (d) A survivor annuity is payable to a surviving spouse only if that 
person was married to the principal at the time of his/her death or if 
the spouse became a former spouse under the definition in Sec.  19.2(k).

[46 FR 12958, Feb. 19, 1981. Redesignated and amended at 46 FR 18970, 
Mar. 27, 1981]