5 C.F.R. § 880.302 Payments of CSRS or FERS benefits.
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
(a) OPM will pay an amount equal to the survivor annuity that would be payable as CSRS or FERS survivor annuity to an account in a financial institution designated (under electronic funds transfer regulations in part 209 or part 210 of Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations) by an individual who, if the missing annuitant were dead, would be entitled to receive payment of a survivor annuity. (b) If more than one individual would qualify for survivor annuity payments in the event of the missing annuitant's death, OPM will make separate payments in the same manner as if the missing annuitant were dead.
Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 880—RETIREMENT AND INSURANCE BENEFITS DURING PERIODS OF UNEXPLAINED ABSENCE
Subpart C—Continuation of Benefits
§ 880.302 Payments of CSRS or FERS benefits.
