---
kind: "unit"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Administrative Personnel"
key: "chVI/part1651"
level: "part"
label: "Part 1651"
heading: "Death Benefits"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/chVI-part1651"
sections_count: 19
---

# Part 1651 — Death Benefits

Title 5 C.F.R. — Administrative Personnel › Chapter VI — Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

## Sections

- [§1651.1. Definitions.](/cfr/5/1651.1.md)
- [§1651.2. Entitlement to funds in a deceased participant's account.](/cfr/5/1651.2.md)
- [§1651.3. Designation of beneficiary.](/cfr/5/1651.3.md)
- [§1651.4. How to change a designation of beneficiary.](/cfr/5/1651.4.md)
- [§1651.5. Spouse of participant.](/cfr/5/1651.5.md)
- [§1651.6. Child or children.](/cfr/5/1651.6.md)
- [§1651.7. Parent or parents.](/cfr/5/1651.7.md)
- [§1651.8. Participant's estate.](/cfr/5/1651.8.md)
- [§1651.9. Participant's next of kin.](/cfr/5/1651.9.md)
- [§1651.10. Deceased and non-existent beneficiaries.](/cfr/5/1651.10.md)
- [§1651.11. Simultaneous death.](/cfr/5/1651.11.md)
- [§1651.12. Homicide.](/cfr/5/1651.12.md)
- [§1651.13. How to apply for a death benefit.](/cfr/5/1651.13.md)
- [§1651.14. How payment is made.](/cfr/5/1651.14.md)
- [§1651.15. Claims referred to the Board.](/cfr/5/1651.15.md)
- [§1651.16. Missing and unknown beneficiaries.](/cfr/5/1651.16.md)
- [§1651.17. Disclaimer of benefits.](/cfr/5/1651.17.md)
- [§1651.18. Payment to one bars payment to another.](/cfr/5/1651.18.md)
- [§1651.19. Beneficiary participant accounts.](/cfr/5/1651.19.md)