8 Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where the recipient is a person who was an employee and is a widow and is in receipt of pensions as such, no increase shall be made pursuant to these Regulations in the annual rate at which any pension of the recipient is payable unless the total of all the pensions, computed at an annual rate, does not exceed three thousand dollars, in which case, each pension shall be increased in accordance with section 3, but the aggregate of all the increases, computed at an annual rate, shall in no case exceed the lesser of
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