If an employee dies and no survivor annuity is payable based on his/her death, the retirement contributions remaining to the deceased person’s credit in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, plus applicable interest, are payable.
If a lump sum benefit is payable, it is paid to the first person eligible under the following order of precedence:
• beneficiary designated by the deceased in writing which is signed and witnessed and is received at his/her employing agency (or OPM if the deceased was a retiree or a separated employee) prior to death;
• spouse of the deceased;
• children of the deceased (or descendants of deceased children);
• parents of the deceased;
• executor or administrator of the deceased person’s estate; then
next of kin of the deceased according to the laws in the deceased person’s state of domicile.
