[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR408.220]

[Page 588-589]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 408_SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS--Table of 
Contents
 
               Subpart B_SVB Qualification and Entitlement
 
Sec. 408.220  Do you have other benefit income?

    (a) Description of other benefit income. Other benefit income is any 
regular periodic payment (such as an annuity, pension, retirement or 
disability benefit) that you receive. For other benefit income to affect 
your SVB eligibility, you must have been receiving the other benefit 
income in any part of the 12-month period before the month in which you 
filed your application for SVB. Payments received after you become 
entitled to SVB can be included as other benefit income only if you 
received a similar payment from the same or a related source during any 
part of the 12-month period before the month in which you filed your 
application for SVB.
    (b) When other benefit payments are considered to be similar 
payments from the same or a related source. Payments are similar 
payments from the same or a related source if they are received from 
sources substantially related to the sources of income received before 
you became entitled to SVB. For example, if you received U.S. Social 
Security spouse's benefits in the 12-month period before you filed your 
application for SVB and these were changed to widower's benefits after 
you became entitled to SVB, we would consider this to be from the same 
or a related source.
    (c) Examples of other benefit income. Other benefit income can come 
from a source inside or outside the United States. It includes, but is 
not limited to, any of the following:
    (1) Veterans' compensation or pension,
    (2) Workers' compensation,
    (3) U.S. or foreign Social Security benefits (not including SSI 
payments from the U.S.),
    (4) Railroad retirement annuity or pension,
    (5) Retirement or disability pension,
    (6) Individual Retirement Account (IRA) payments, and
    (7) Unemployment insurance benefit.
    (d) If you receive a lump-sum payment. Regular periodic payments can 
also include lump-sum payments made at your request or as an 
administrative convenience or practice in place of

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more frequent payments. See Sec. 408.224(e) for an explanation of how 
we determine the monthly amount of your benefit income if you receive a 
lump-sum payment.