Pub. L. 87-793, pt. III, sec. 1103

Sec. 1103. (a) Section 9(g) of the Civil Service Retirement Act is amended to read as follows: “(g) The annuity as hereinbefore provided (excluding any increase because of retirement under section 7) for any married employee or Member retiring under this Act, or any portion of such annuity designated in writing for purposes of section 10(a)(1), shall Ge reduced by 2½ per centum of so much thereof as does not exceed $3,600 and by 10 per centum of so much thereof as exceeds $3,600, unless the employee or Member notifies the Commission in writing at the time of retirement that he does not desire his wife or husband to receive an annuity as provided in section 10(a)(1).” (b) Section 10(a) (1) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “(1) If an employee or Member dies after having retired under any provision of this Act and is survived by a wife or husband to whom the employee or Member was married at the time of retirement, such wife or husband shall be paid an annuity equal to 55 per centum of an annuity computed as provided in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of section 9, as may apply with respect to the annuitant, or of such portion thereof as may have been designated in writing for such purpose by the employee or Member at the time of retirement, unless the employee or Member has notified the Commission in writing at the time of retirement that he does not desire his wife or husband to receive such annuity.” 76 Stat. 871 (c) Section 10(b) of such Act is amended by striking out “50 per centum” and inserting in lieu thereof “55 per centum”. (d) Section 10(c) of such Act is amended by striking out “50 per centum” and inserting in lieu thereof “55 per centum”. (e) Section 10(e) of such Act is amended by striking out “50 per centum” and inserting in lieu thereof “55 per centum”. (f) (A) Section 1 (j) of the Civil Service Retirement Act is amended by substituting a comma for the period at the end thereof and adding the following: “or such unmarried child between eighteen and twenty-one years of age who is a student regularly pursuing a full-time course of study or training in residence in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university, or comparable recognized educational institution. A child whose twenty-first birthday occurs prior to July 1 or after August 31 of any calendar year, and while he is regularly pursuing such a course of study or training, shall be deemed for the purposes of this paragraph and section 10(d) to have attained the age of twenty-one on the first day of July following such birthday. A child who is a student shall not be deemed to have ceased to be a student during any interim between school years if the interim does not exceed four months and if he shows to the satisfaction of the Commission that he has a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study or training in the same or different school during the school semester (or other period into which the school year is divided) immediately following the interim.” (B) The third sentence of section 10(d) of the Act is amended to read as follows: “The child’s annuity shall commence on the day after the employee or Member dies, and such annuity granted under this Act or under the Act of May 29, 1930, as amended from and after February 28, 1948, or any right thereto shall terminate on the last day of the month before (1) his attaining age eighteen unless incapable of self-support, (2) his becoming capable of self-support after age eighteen, (3) his marriage, or (4) his death, except that the annuity of a child who is a student as described in section 1 (j) shall terminate on the last day of the month before (1) his marriage, (2) his death, (3) his ceasing to be such a student, or (4) his attaining age twenty-one.”