---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.6"
title: "20"
number: "10.6"
heading: "What special statutory definitions apply to dependents and survivors?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.6"
---

# §10.6. What special statutory definitions apply to dependents and survivors?

- (a) [5 U.S.C. 8133](/usc/5/8133.md) provides that certain benefits are payable to certain enumerated survivors of employees who have died from an injury sustained in the performance of duty.
- (b) [5 U.S.C. 8148](/usc/5/8148.md) also provides that certain other benefits may be payable to certain family members of employees who have been incarcerated due to a felony conviction.
- (c) [5 U.S.C. 8110(b)](/usc/5/8110.md?p=b) further provides that any employee who is found to be eligible for a basic benefit shall be entitled to have such basic benefit augmented at a specified rate for certain persons who live in the beneficiary's household or who are dependent upon the beneficiary for support.
- (d) 5 U.S.C. [8101](/usc/5/8101.md), [8110](/usc/5/8110.md), [8133](/usc/5/8133.md), and [8148](/usc/5/8148.md), which define the nature of such survivorship or dependency necessary to qualify a beneficiary for a survivor's benefit or an augmented benefit, apply to the provisions of this part but not to the death gratuity provided under subpart J.
- (e) [5 U.S.C. 8102a](/usc/5/8102a.md) provides the definitions for survivorship or dependency necessary to qualify as a beneficiary for a death gratuity benefit as well as allowing half the death gratuity benefit to be paid to alternate beneficiary.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.