Section 5-165-2 - Conditions under which employee's spouse will receive retirement salary and amount of same(a) If an employee retires after his election has been approved by the retirement commission and is outlived by his spouse, such spouse shall be entitled to a retirement salary commencing at the employee's death. In the case of an employee who did not participate in social security or who was a member of part A of the state employees retirement system with or without participation in social security, the amount of each payment to the spouse shall be the (reduced) amount which would have been payable if the employee were living at the time of such payment, or such fraction thereof as the employee shall have specified in his election. In the case of an employee who did participate in social security, but was not a member of said part A, the income payable to the spouse prior to the spouse's sixty-second birthday shall be the same as if the employee were not participating in social security, and the income thereafter shall be the same as that to which the employee was entitled, or to which he would have been entitled on or after his sixty-fifth birthday or such fraction thereof as the employee shall have specified in his election.(b) If the employee shall die before his retirement date, the election shall be void, but the spouse shall be entitled to such income, if any, as is payable under the spouse option provided by section 5-16a of the 1969 supplement to the general statutes.Conn. Agencies Regs. § 5-165-2