---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1444a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1444a"
heading: "Regulations regarding payment of annuity to a representative payee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1444a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 73 — Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay"
  - "Subchapter I — Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan"
---

# §1444a. Regulations regarding payment of annuity to a representative payee

- (a) The regulations prescribed pursuant to [section 1444(a) of this title](/usc/10/1444.md?p=a) shall provide procedures for the payment of an annuity under this subchapter in the case of—
  - (1) a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; and
  - (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed.
- (b) Those regulations may include the provisions set out in [section 1455(d)(2) of this title](/usc/10/1455.md?p=d-2).
- (c) An annuity paid to a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) on behalf of an annuitant in accordance with the regulations prescribed pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) discharges the obligation of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) for payment to the annuitant of the amount of the annuity so paid.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title VI, § 654(b)(1), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1390; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, § 1073(a)(26), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1901.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1997—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–85 substituted “section 1455(d)(2)” for “section 1455(c)”.