Bagwell-Lide v. office of Personnel Management

Connie J. Bagwell-Lide appeals from the October 4, 1994 decision of an Administrative Judge of the Merit Systems Protection Board, No. DA-0831-94-0555-I-1, sustaining the reconsideration decision of the Office of Personnel Management denying her application for survivor annuity benefits for Laura R. Bagwell, the minor child of deceased federal employee Carl R. Bradford. Because the statute governing surviving child annuity benefits, 5 U.S.C. § 8341, does not, as Bagwell-Lide contends, offend the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendments Due Process Clause by conditioning entitlement to benefits on ones status as a dependent, we affirm.