Section 4
SEC. 4. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (d), of Art. 194 of PD 44 Amended, are hereby amended further to read as follows: "Article 194. Death.—Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, the System shall pay to the primary-beneficiaries upon the death of the covered employee under the Title an amount equivalent to his monthly income benefit, plus ten percent thereof for each dependent child, but not exceeding five, beginning with the youngest and without substitution except provided for in paragraph (j) of Article 167, hereof: Provided However, That the monthly income benefit shall be guaranteed for five years: Provided, Further, That if he has no primary beneficiary, the System shall pay to his secondary beneficiaries the monthly income benefit but not to exceed sixty months. Provided, Finally, That the minimum death benefit shall not be less than Fifteen thousand Pesos; "(b) Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, the System shall pay to the primary beneficiaries upon the death of a covered employee who is under permanent total disability under this Title, eighty percent of the monthly income benefit and his dependents to the dependents' pension: Provided, That the marriage must have been validly subsisting at the time of disability: Provided, Further, That if he has no primary beneficiaries, the System shall pay to his secondary beneficiaries the monthly pension excluding the dependent's pension, of the remaining balance of the five-year guaranteed period: Provided, Finally, That the minimum death benefit shall be less than fifteen thousand pesos." "(d) Funeral Benefit. A funeral benefit of One Thousand five Hundred Pesos shall be paid upon the death of a covered employee or permanently totally disabled pensioner.