child or children of the deceased and to any other person or persons who, under the intestacy law of the State where the deceased will have been domiciled, will have been entitled to share as distributees with such children of the deceased, in such proportions as is provided by such law; or, if no widow or widower and no such child and no such other person be then living, to the parent or parents of the deceased, in equal shares. A person who is entitled to share as distributee with an above-named relative of the deceased shall not be precluded from receiving a payment under this subsection by reason of the fact that no such named relative will have survived the deceased or of the fact that no such named relative of the deceased will have been living on the date of such determination. If none of the persons described in this subsection be living on the date of such determination, such amount shall be paid to any person or persons, equitably entitled thereto, to the extent and in the proportions that he or they shall have paid the expenses of burial of the deceased. If a lump sum would be payable to a widow, child, or parent under this subsection except for the fact that a survivor will have been entitled to receive an annuity for the month in which the employee will have died, but within one year after the employee's death there will not have accrued to survivors of the employee, by reason of his death annuities which, after all deductions pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (i) will have been made, are equal to such lump sum, a payment to any then surviving widow, children, or parents shall nevertheless be made under this subsection equal to the amount by which such lump sum exceeds such annuities so accrued after such deductions. No payment shall be made to any person under this subsection, unless application therefor shall have been filed, by or on behalf of any such person (whether or not legally competent), prior to the expiration of two years after the date of death of the deceased employee, except that if the deceased employee is a person to whom section 2 of the Act of March 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 143, 144), is applicable such two years shall run from the date on which the deceased employee, pursuant to said Act, is determined to be dead, and for all other purposes of this section such employee, so long as it does not appear that he is in fact alive, shall be deemed to have died on the date determined pursuant to said Act to be the date or presumptive date of death.

"(g) CORRELATION OF PAYMENTS.-(1) An individual, entitled on applying therefor to receive for a month before January 1, 1947, an insurance benefit under the Social Security Act on the basis of an employee's wages, which benefit is greater in amount than would be an annuity for such individual under this section with respect to the death of such employee, shall not be entitled to such annuity. An individual, entitled on applying therefor to any annuity or lump sum under this section with respect to the death of an employee, shall not be entitled to a lump-sum death payment or, for a month beginning on or after January 1, 1947, to any insurance benefits under the Social Security Act on the basis of the wages of the same employee.

(2) A widow or child, otherwise entitled to an annuity under this section, shall be entitled only to that part of such annuity for

a month which exceeds the total of any retirement annuity, and insurance benefit under the Social Security Act to which such widow or child would be entitled for such month on proper application. therefor. A parent, otherwise entitled to an annuity under this section, shall be entitled only to that part of such annuity for a month which exceeds the total of any other annuity under this section, retirement annuity, and insurance benefit under the Social Security Act to which such parent would be entitled for such month on proper application therefor.

"(h) MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM ANNUITY TOTALS.- -Whenever according to the provisions of this section as to annuities, payable for a month with respect to the death of an employee, the total of annuities is more than $20 and exceeds either (a) $120, or (b) an amount equal to twice such employee's basic amount, or with respect to employees other than those who will have been completely insured solely by virtue of subsection (1) (7) (iii), such total exceeds (c) an amount equal to 80 per centum of his average monthly remuneration, whichever of such amounts is least, such total of annuities shall, prior to any deductions under subsection (i), be reduced to such least amount or to $20, whichever is greater. Whenever such total of annuities is less than $10, such total shall, prior to any deductions under subsection (i), be increased to $10.

(i) DEDUCTIONS FROM ANNUITIES. (1) Deductions shall be made from any payments under this section to which an individual is entitled, until the total of such deductions equals such individual's annuity or annuities under this section for any month in which such individual

"(i) will have rendered compensated service within or without the United States to an employer;

"(ii) will have rendered service for wages of not less than $25; "(iii) if a child under eighteen and over sixteen years of age, will have failed to attend school regularly and the Board finds that attendance will have been feasible; or

"(iv) if a widow otherwise entitled to an annuity under subsection (b) will not have had in her care a child of the deceased employee entitled to receive an annuity under subsection (c); "(2) The total of deductions for all events described in paragraph (1) occurring in the same month shall be limited to the amount of such individual's annuity or annuities for that month. Such individual (or anyone in receipt of an annuity in his behalf) shall report to the Board the occurrence of any event described in paragraph (1). "(3) Deductions shall also be made from any payments under this section with respect to the death of an employee until such deductions total

"(i) any death benefit, paid with respect to the death of such employee, under sections 5 of the Retirement Acts (other than a survivor annuity pursuant to an election);

"(ii) any lump sum paid, with respect to the death of such employee, under title II of the Social Security Act, or under section 203 of the Social Security Act in force prior to the date of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1939;

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ment of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1939, provided such lump sum will not previously have been deducted from any insurance benefit paid under the Social Security Act; and

"(iv) an amount equal to 1 per centum of any wages paid to such employee for services performed in 1939, and subsequent to his attaining age sixty-five, with respect to which the taxes imposed by section 1400 of the Internal Revenue Code will not have been deducted by his employer from his wages or paid by such employer, provided such amount will not previously have been deducted from any insurance benefit paid under the Social Security Act.

"(4) The deductions provided in this subsection shall be made in such amounts and at such time or times as the Board shall determine. Decreases or increases in the total of annuities payable for a month with respect to the death of an employee shall be equally apportioned among all annuities in such total. An annuity under this section which is not in excess of $5 may, in the discretion of the Board, be paid in a lump sum equal to its commuted value as the Board shall determine. "(j) WHEN ANNUITIES BEGIN AND END.-No individual shall be entitled to receive an annuity under this section for any month before January 1, 1947. An application for any payment under this section shall be made and filed in such manner and form as the Board prescribes. An annuity under this section for an individual otherwise entitled thereto shall begin with the month in which such individual filed an application for such annuity: Provided, That such individual's annuity shall begin with the first month for which he will otherwise have been entitled to receive such annuity if he files such application prior to the end of the third month immediately succeeding such month. No application for an annuity under this section filed prior to three months before the first month for which the applicant becomes otherwise entitled to receive such annuity shall be accepted. No annuity shall be payable for the month in which the recipient thereof ceases to be qualified therefor.

"(k) PROVISIONS FOR CREDITING RAILROAD INDUSTRY SERVICE UNDER THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT IN CERTAIN CASES.-(1) For the purpose of determining insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act which would begin to accrue on or after January 1, 1947, to a widow, parent, or surviving child, and with respect to lump-sum death payments under such title payable in relation to a death occurring on or after such date, section 15 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, section 209 (b) (9) of the Social Security Act, and section. 17 of this Act shall not operate to exclude from 'employment', under title II of the Social Security Act, service which would otherwise be included in such 'employment' but for such sections. For such purpose, compensation paid in a calendar year shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed to have been paid in equal proportions with respect to all months in the year in which the employee will have been in services as an employee.

(2) Not later than January 1, 1950, the Board and the Federal Security Administrator shall make a special joint report to the President to be submitted to Congress setting forth the experience of the Board in crediting wages toward awards, and the experience of the Social Security Board in crediting compensation toward

awards, and their recommendations for such legislative changes as are deemed advisable for equitable distribution of the financial burden of such awards between the retirement account and the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.

"(3) The Board and the Federal Security Administrator shall, upon request, supply each other with certified reports of records of compensation or wages and periods of service and of other records in their possession or which they may secure, pertinent to the administration of this section or title II of the Social Security Act as affected by paragraph (1). Such certified reports shall be conclusive in adjudication as to the matters covered therein: Provided, That if the Board or the Federal Security Administrator receives evidence inconsistent with a certified report and the application involved is still in course of adjudication or otherwise open for such evidence, such recertification of such report shall be made as, in the judgment of the Board or the Federal Security Administrator, whichever made the original certification, the evidence warrants. Such recertification and any subsequent recertification shall be treated in the same manner and be subject to the same conditions as an original certification.

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"(1) DEFINITIONS.-For the purposes of this section the term 'employee' includes an individual who will have been an 'employee', and

"(1) The qualifications for 'widow', 'child', and 'parent' shall be, except for the purposes of subsection (f), those set forth in section 209 (j) and (k), and section 202 (f) (3) of the Social Security Act, respectively; and in addition

"(i) a 'widow' shall have been living with her husband employee at the time of his death;

(ii) a 'child' shall have been dependent upon its parent employee at the time of his death; shall not be adopted after such death; shall be unmarried; and less than eighteen years of age; and

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"(iii) a 'parent' shall have been wholly dependent upon and supported at the time of his death by the employee to whom the relationship of 'parent' is claimed; and shall have filed proof of such dependency and support within two years after such date of death, or within six months after January 1, 1947. A 'widow' or a 'child' shall be deemed to have been so living with a husband or so dependent upon a parent if the conditions set forth in section 209 (n) or section 202 (c) (3) or (4) of the Social Security Act, respectively, are fulfilled. In determining whether an applicant is the wife, widow, child, or parent of an employee as claimed, the rules set forth in section 209 (m) of the Social Security Act shall be applied:

(2) The term 'retirement annuity' shall mean an annuity under section 2 awarded before or after its amendment but not including an annuity to a survivor pursuant to an election of a joint and survivor annuity; and the term 'pension' shall mean a pension under section 6; "(3) The term 'quarter of coverage' shall mean a compensation quarter of coverage or a wage quarter of coverage, and the term quarters of coverage' shall mean compensation quarters of coverage, or wage quarters of coverage, or both: Provided, That there shall be

for a single employee no more than four quarters of coverage for a single calendar year;

(4) The term 'compensation quarter of coverage' shall mean any quarter of coverage computed with respect to compensation paid to an employee after 1936 in accordance with the following table:

"(5) The term 'wage quarter of coverage' shall mean any quarter of coverage determined in accordance with the provisions of title II of the Social Security Act;

"(6) The term 'wages' shall mean wages as defined in section 209 (a) of the Social Security Act;

"(7) An employee will have been 'completely insured' if it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that at the time of his death, whether before or after the enactment of this section, he will have had the qualifications set forth in any one of the following paragraphs:

"(i) a current connection with the railroad industry; and a number of quarters of coverage, not less than six, and at least equal to one-half of the number of quarters, elapsing in the period after 1936, or after the quarter in which he will have attained the age of twenty-one, whichever is later, and up to but excluding the quarter in which he will have attained the age of sixty-five years or died, whichever will first have occurred (excluding from the elapsed quarters any quarter during any part of which a retirement annuity will have been payable to him); and if the number of such elapsed quarters is an odd number such number shall be reduced by one; or

"(ii) a current connection with the railroad industry; and forty or more quarters of coverage; or

"(iii) a pension will have been payable to him; or a retirement annuity based on service of not less than ten years (as computed in awarding the annuity) will have begun to accrue to him before 1948;

"(8) An employee will have been 'partially insured' if it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that at the time of his death, whether before or after the enactment of this section, he will have had (i) a current connection with the railroad industry; and (ii) six or more quarters of coverage in the period beginning with the third calendar year next preceding the year in which he will have died and ending with the quarter next preceding the quarter in which he will have died;

"(9) An employee's 'average monthly remuneration' shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing (A) the sum of the compensation