Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where the spouse of a deceased eligible employee is entitled to spouse's standard pension by virtue of section 89, the annual rate of that pension is, subject to subsection (2) of this section, 67 per centum of the annual rate of the standard age retirement pension to which the deceased eligible employee would have been entitled if he or she had not died but had, on the day immediately following the date of his or her death, become entitled to standard age retirement pension in accordance with section 56.
(2) If, at any time when spouse's standard pension is payable by virtue of section 89 to the spouse of a deceased eligible employee, there are children of the eligible employee who are eligible children, then, in the application of subsection (1) of this section at that time to the spouse, the reference in that subsection to 67 per centum shall be read as a reference to:
(a) where there is 1 eligible child--78 per centum;
(b) where there are 2 eligible children--89 per centum; or
(c) where there are 3 or more eligible children--100 per centum.