PUBLIC LAW 102-496-OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3211 since the date the annuity commenced, plus interest.
- (II) The annual rate of interest for each year
during which the retired participant's annuity would have been reduced if the election had been in effect since the date the annuity commenced shall be 6 percent. (Ill) If the retired participant does not make the deposit, the Director shall collect such amount by offset against the participant's annuity, up to a maximum of 25 percent of the net annuity otherwise payable to the retired participant, and the retired participant is deemed to consent to such offset. "(IV) The deposit required by this subparagraph may be made by the surviving spouse of the retired participant. "(C) EFFECTS OF ELECTION. —An election under this paragraph and the reduction in the participant's annuity shall be effective on the first day of the month beginning 9 months after Hie date of remarriage. A siuvivor annuity elected under this paragraph shall be treated in all respects as a survivor annuity under subsection (b).
- (h) COORDINATION OF ANNUITIES. —
"(1) SURVIVING SPOUSE.— ^A surviving spouse whose survivor annuity was terminated because of remarriage before attaining age 55 shall not be entitled under subsection (b)(3)(C) to the restoration of that survivor annuity payable from the fund unless the surviving spouse elects to receive it instead of any other survivor annuity to which the surviving spouse may be entitled under the system or any other retirement system for Government employees by reason of the remarriage. "(2) FORMER SPOUSE. —A surviving former spouse of a participant or retired participant shaO not become entitled under section 222(b) or 224 to a survivor annuity or to the restoration of a survivor annuity payable from the fund unless the surviving former spotise elects to receive it instead of any other survivor annuity to which the surviving former spouse may be entitled under this or any other reHrement system for Government employees on the basis of a marriage to someone other than the participant. "(3) SURVIVING SPOUSE OF POST-RETIREMENT MARRIAGE. — A surviving spouse who married a participant after the participant's retirement shall be entitled to a survivor annuity payable from the fund only upon electing that annuity instead of any other survivor annuity to which the surviving spouse may be entitled under this or any other retirement system for Government employees on the basis of a marriage to someone other than the retired participant, "(i) SUPPLEMENTAL SURVIVOR ANNUITIES.— "(1) SPOUSE OF RECALLED ANNUITANT.—A married recalled annuitant who reverts to retired status with entitlement to a supplemental annuity under section 271(b) shall, unless the annuitant and the annuitant's spouse jointly elect in writing to the contrary at the time of reversion to retired status, have the supplemental annuity reduced by 10 percent to provide a supplemental survivor annuity for the annuitant's spouse.
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