[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: 20CFR410.300]

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                      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 C_Relationship and Dependency
 
Sec. 410.300  Relationship and dependency; general.

    Authority: Sec. 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
902(a)(5)), secs. 402, 412(a), 426(a), and 508, 83 Stat. 792; 30 U.S.C. 
902, 922(a), 936, and 957.


    (a) In order to establish entitlement to benefits, a widow, child, 
parent, brother, or sister must meet relationship and dependency 
requirements with respect to the miner or widow, as applicable, 
prescribed by or pursuant to the Act.
    (b) In order for an entitled miner or widow to qualify for augmented 
benefits because of one or more dependents (see Sec. 410.510(c)), such 
dependents must

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meet relationship and dependency requirements with respect to such 
beneficiary prescribed by or pursuant to the Act.
    (c) References in Sec. Sec. 410.310(c), 410.320(c), 410.330(d), and 
410.340, to the ``same right to share in the intestate personal 
property'' of a deceased miner (or widow), refer to the right of an 
individual to share in such distribution in his own right and not by 
right of representation.

[37 FR 20638, Sept. 30, 1972]