---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8444"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8444"
heading: "Rights of a named individual with an insurable interest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8444"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter IV — Survivor Annuities"
---

# §8444. Rights of a named individual with an insurable interest


The annuity of a [survivor](/usc/5/8401.md?p=28) named under [section 8420(a)](/usc/5/8420.md?p=a) is 55 percent of the reduced annuity of the retired [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) or [Member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) determined under [paragraph (2)](/usc/5/8420.md?p=a-2) of such section 8420(a). The annuity of the [survivor](/usc/5/8401.md?p=28) commences on the day after the retired [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) or [Member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) dies. This annuity and the right thereto terminate on the last day of the month before the [survivor](/usc/5/8401.md?p=28) dies.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 563.)