---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 19.11-3"
title: "22"
number: "19.11-3"
heading: "Regular survivor annuity for a spouse."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/19.11-3"
---

# §19.11-3. Regular survivor annuity for a spouse.

- (a) In the absence of a joint election or a spousal agreement to the contrary, a participant or former participant who is separated from active service on or after February 15, 1981 who is married at the commencement of his/her annuity shall provide a regular survivor annuity for a spouse under [§ 19.10-2](/cfr/22/19.10-2.md) equal to the maximum amount that remains available under limitations stated in [paragraph (b)](/cfr/22/19.10-2.md?p=b) of that section after allowing for any commitment of a regular survivor annuity for a former spouse who has not remarried prior to age 60 and who is alive on the date the former participant becomes eligible for an annuity.
- (b) A regular survivor annuity is also payable to a surviving spouse for whom a principal elected an annuity under [§ 19.10-3](/cfr/22/19.10-3.md), [§ 19.10-4](/cfr/22/19.10-4.md), or [§ 19.11-2(c)](/cfr/22/19.11-2.md?p=c) following a marriage after comencement of his/her annuity.
- (c) The amount of a regular survivor annuity equals 55 percent of the base designated for the benefit at the time the principal's annuity commenced, adjusted by the total percentage of cost-of-living increases the principal was receiving at death.
- (d) A survivor annuity is payable to a surviving spouse only if that person was married to the principal at the time of his/her death or if the spouse became a former spouse under the definition in [§ 19.2(k)](/cfr/22/19.2.md?p=k).

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 12958, Feb. 19, 1981. Redesignated and amended at 46 FR 18970, Mar. 27, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 206 and 801 of Foreign Service Act of 1980 (94 Stat. 2079, 2102); Sec. 4 of Act of May 26, 1949 (22 U.S.C. 2658).

### Source

Source: 46 FR 12958, Feb. 19, 1981, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 46 FR 18970, Mar. 27, 1981.

### Amendments

[46 FR 12958, Feb. 19, 1981. Redesignated and amended at 46 FR 18970, Mar. 27, 1981]