[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: 20CFR410.220]

[Page 609-610]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 410_FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV_BLACK 
LUNG BENEFITS (1969	 )--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B_Requirements for Entitlement; Duration of Entitlement; Filing 
                         of Claims and Evidence
 
Sec. 410.220  Claim for benefits; definitions.

    For purposes of this part:
    (a) Claim defined. The term claim means a writing asserting a right 
to benefits by an individual, or by a proper party on his behalf as 
defined in Sec. 410.222, which writing is filed with the Administration 
in accordance with the regulations in this subpart.
    (b) Application defined. The term application refers only to a 
writing on a form prescribed in Sec. 410.221.
    (c) Claimant defined. The term claimant refers to the individual who 
has filed a claim for benefits on his own behalf, or on whose behalf a 
proper party as defined in Sec. 410.222 has filed a claim.
    (d) Applicant defined. The term applicant refers to the individual 
who has filed an application on his own behalf, or on behalf of another, 
for benefits.
    (e) Execution of claim defined. The term to execute a claim means to 
complete and sign an application (but, for an exception, see Sec. 
410.234). Irrespective of who may have prepared or completed the 
application, it is considered to have been executed by or on behalf of 
the claimant when it is signed by him or by an individual authorized to 
do so on his behalf (see Sec. 410.222).
    (f) Provisions with respect to claims applicable with respect to 
requests. The provisions of Sec. Sec. 410.222 through 410.234 (relating 
to the preparation, execution, or filing of a claim for benefits) are 
applicable to the preparation, execution, and filing of a written 
request required under this part, e.g., a request to be selected as 
representative payee (see Sec. 410.581 et seq.), a request for separate

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payment of an augmentation (see Sec. 410.511), a request for 
reconsideration (see Sec. 410.622), etc. In such cases, the term 
claimant as used therein refers to the individual filing the request on 
his own behalf or the individual on whose behalf such request is filed.

[36 FR 23752, Dec. 14, 1971, as amended at 37 FR 20637, Sept. 30, 1972]