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B-221945 1 (1986-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmki0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION I OF THE U1NITED STATES 9.WASH IN GTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-221945 DATE: August 4, 1986 MATTER OF: Department of Defense Military Pay and Allowance Committee Action Number 561 DIGEST: 1. Eligible beneficiaries under the Sur- vivor Benefit Plan, an income mainte- nance program for the surviving dependents of deceased service mem- bers, include Plan participants' chil- dren between 18 and 22 years old who are full-time students. Children over 18 years old who are not attending school may become eligible for an annuity at any time until they reach the age of 22 by undertaking a full- time course of study, since the Congress in establishing the Plan indicated that children aged anywhere between 18 and 22 years old who are students should be regarded as eligi- ble dependents for purposes of annuity coverage. 2. If a Survivor Benefit Plan partici- pant's child who is between 18 and 22 years old becomes a full-time student and thus becomes eligible for an annuity under the Plan, any result- ing adjustment that may be necessary in the participant's cost for benefi- ciary coverage should be made effec- tive on the first day of the month after the child has resumed school attendance, as costs for benefit coverage generally are assessed on a monthly basis and should be predicated on the beneficiary status in being on the first day of a month, for that month. 3. As a general rule, a valid marriage entered into by a Survivor Benefit Plan participant's child terminates (2a4=kLE)\

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