2 U.S.C. § 38a : US Code - Section 38A: Disposition of unpaid salary and other sums on death of Representative or Resident Commissioner

Search 2 U.S.C. § 38a : US Code - Section 38A: Disposition of unpaid salary and other sums on death of Representative or Resident Commissioner

When any individual who has been elected a Member of, or Resident
Commissioner to, the House of Representatives dies after the
commencement of the Congress to which he has been elected, any
unpaid balance of salary and other sums due such individual shall
be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date of death, in
the following order of precedence, and such payment shall be a bar
to the recovery by any other person of amounts so paid:
First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by such
individual in writing to receive such unpaid balance and other sums
due filed with the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of
Representatives and received by the Chief Administrative Officer
prior to such individual's death;
Second, if there be no such beneficiary, to the widow or widower
of such individual;
Third, if there be no beneficiary or surviving spouse, to the
child or children of such individual, and descendants of deceased
children, by representation;
Fourth, if none of the above, to the parents of such individual,
or the survivor of them;
Fifth, if there be none of the above, to the duly appointed legal
representative of the estate of the deceased individual, or if
there be none, to the person or persons determined to be entitled
thereto under the laws of the domicile of the deceased individual.