Section 6-B1150. PAYMENT OF MONEY DUE - SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS (DECEASED EMPLOYEES)

 

1150.1In this section, the following term has the meaning ascribed:

 

Money due - the pay and allowances due on account of the services of a deceased employee of the District of Columbia government, not including benefits payable under Title 5 of the U.S. Code.

 

1150.2The personnel authority shall notify each employee of his or her right to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive money due, and of the disposition of money due if a beneficiary is not designated.

 

1150.3An employee who designates a beneficiary or beneficiaries under § 1150.2 shall file the designation in writing with the Office of Pay and Retirement Services or with his or her servicing personnel office, which shall then forward the designation to the Office of Pay and Retirement Services.

 

1150.4An employee may file, change, or revoke a designation at any time, which shall become effective on the date received in the Office of Pay and Retirement Services.

 

1150.5In order to facilitate settlement of accounts of a deceased employee, money due an employee at the time of his or her death shall be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date of death, in the following order of precedence:

 

(a)First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the employee in writing;

 

(b)Second, if there is no designated beneficiary, to the widow or widower of the employee;

 

(c)Third, if none of the above, to the child or children of the employee and descendants of deceased children by representation;

 

(d)Fourth, if none of the above, equally to the parents of the employee or the survivor of them;

 

(e)Fifth, if none of the above, to the duly appointed legal representative of the employee’s estate; and

 

(f)Sixth, if none of the above, to the person or persons entitled under the laws of the employee’s domicile at the time of the employee’s death.

 

1150.6A legal separation agreement shall not divest the widow or widower of a deceased employee of his or her right to unpaid compensation in the absence of the designation of another beneficiary.

 

1150.7No payment of money due shall be made to an heir or beneficiary of a deceased employee if that heir or beneficiary is found guilty of feloniously killing the employee upon whose death the payments become due.

 

1150.8Payment under § 1150.5 shall bar recovery by another party or parties of the amounts so paid.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 52 DCR 934 (February 4, 2005).