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amount of such accumulated contributions is less than ten dollars, no such payment shall be made. Section 26-38° Ordinary death benefits. (a) Should a member, who had one or more years of creditable service, die in service at any time before retirement from a cause not compensable under the Virginia Workmen's Com- pensation Act, an ~dditional benefit equal to one thousand dollars shall then be payable in a "l~p sum in accordance with section 26-42. (b) Should a member die in service at any time after having attained his fifty-fifth birthday, from a cause not com- pensable under the Virginia Workmen~s Compensation Act, there shall be paid a retirement allowance to the first of the follow- ing listed persons, if any, who is a!ive at the death of the member: wife~ husband, mother~ father~ sister or brother~ provided such sister or brother received more than fifty percent of her or his support from the member. Such retirement allowance shall be pay- able during the lifetime of such first listed person and shall be equal to the reduced retir~ent allowance that would have been payable from tim~ to time ha~.the member retired on the date of his death after having electe~ to have his allowance payable under the joint and last survivor option described in subsection (a) of section 26-41 so that the same amount would be oontinued after his dea~% to such first listed person. Section 26-~0~ Deat/a benefits after retirement or disability. (a) should a member who retired prior to July 1, 1967, die at any time after retirement but before receiving total retire- ment allowances provided in this chapter at least equal to his ac- cumulated contributions as of his date of retirement, the differ- ence between such accu~lated contributions and such total allow- ances shall then be payable in a lump sum in accordance with section 26-42~ unless the retirement allowance is then being paid in accord- ance with any of the options contained in section 26-41~ as in ef- fect at his date of retirement. (b) Should a member who had at least one year of cre- ditable service die after t~rmination of service and before his normal retirement date~ after having been continuously disabled from date of termination of service to date of death to such an extent that he would have qualified for disability retirement in accordance with section 26-33 or section 26-35, without regard to any creditable service requirements or actual retirement there- under, provided that written notification of such disability i~ given to the board by the member, his employer or his beneficiary designated as provided in section 26-~2 within one year after the member's te~..~ination of servlce~ an additional benefit equal to one thousand dollars shall be payable in a lump sum in accordance