This Management Instruction (MI) does the following:
Departments and agencies of the federal government are authorized to pay a death gratuity by section 651 of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, Pub. L. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996). Section 651 of the Act does not apply to the Postal Service. However, the Postal Service has decided to pay a comparable death gratuity under the general authority granted to it by 39 U.S.C. § 401.