Payment of money due; settlement of accounts

§ 5583. Payment of money due; settlement of accounts (a) Under such regulations as the Comptroller General of the United States may prescribe, the employing agency shall pay money due a deceased employee to the beneficiary designated by the employee under section 5582(b) of this title, or, if none, to the widow or widower of the employee. (b) Except as the Comptroller General may by regulation otherwise authorize or direct, accounts not payable under subsection (a) of this section are payable on settlement of the General Accounting Office. However— (1) accounts of employees of the government of the District of Columbia shall be paid by the District of Columbia; (2) accounts of employees of the Canal Zone Government on the Isthmus of Panama shall be paid by the Canal Zone Government; and (3) accounts of employees of Government corporations or mixed ownership Government corporations may be paid by the corporations.