---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8957"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8957"
heading: "Coverage of restored survivor or disability annuitants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8957"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 89A — Enhanced Dental Benefits"
---

# §8957. Coverage of restored survivor or disability annuitants


A surviving spouse, disability [annuitant](/usc/5/8401.md?p=2), or surviving child whose annuity is terminated and is later restored, may continue enrollment in a dental benefits plan subject to the terms and conditions prescribed in regulations issued by the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–496, § 2, Dec. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 4004.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 23, 2004, and applicable to contracts that take effect with respect to the calendar year 2006, see section 7 of Pub. L. 108–496, set out as a note under section 8951 of this title.