Title 10Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

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

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART II— - PERSONNEL › Chapter CHAPTER 73— - ANNUITIES BASED ON RETIRED OR RETAINER PAY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - RETIRED SERVICEMAN’S FAMILY PROTECTION PLAN › § 1444a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Create rules for how to pay an annuity when someone else handles the annuitant’s money. The rules must cover when a guardian or other person legally trusted to manage money has been appointed, and when a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person does not have a guardian. Those rules may include the parts listed in section 1455(d)(2) of this title. If the government pays an annuity to someone on behalf of the annuitant under those rules, that payment counts as the United States’ full payment for that annuity.

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Title 10, §1444a

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(a)The regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1444(a) of this title shall provide procedures for the payment of an annuity under this subchapter in the case of—
(1)a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; and
(2)a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person 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.
(c)An annuity paid to a person on behalf of an annuitant in accordance with the regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (a) discharges the obligation of the United States for payment to the annuitant of the amount of the annuity so paid.

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

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10 U.S.C. § 1444a

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73