[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: 20CFR422.602]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 422_ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Subpart G_Administrative Review Process Under the Coal Industry Retiree 
                       Health Benefit Act of 1992
 
Sec. 422.602  Terms used in this subpart.

    Assignment means our selection of the coal operator or related 
person to be charged with the responsibility of paying the annual health 
and death benefit premiums of certain coal miners and their eligible 
family members.
    Beneficiary means either a coal industry retiree who, on July 20, 
1992, was eligible to receive, and receiving, benefits as an eligible 
individual under the 1950 or the 1974 UMWA Benefit Plan, or an 
individual who was eligible to receive, and receiving, benefits on July 
20, 1992 as an eligible relative of a coal industry retiree.
    Evidence of a prima facie case of error means documentary evidence, 
records, and written statements submitted to us by the assigned operator 
(or related person) that, standing alone, shows our assignment was in 
error. The evidence submitted must, when considered by itself without 
reference to other contradictory evidence that may be in our possession, 
be sufficient to persuade a reasonable person that the assignment was 
erroneous. Examples of evidence that may establish a prima facie case of 
error include copies of Federal, State, or local government tax records; 
legal documents such as business incorporation, merger, and bankruptcy 
papers; health and safety reports filed with Federal or State agencies 
that regulate mining activities; payroll and other employment business 
records; and information provided in trade journals and newspapers.
    A related person to a signatory operator means a person or entity 
which as of July 20, 1992, or, if earlier, the time immediately before 
the coal operator ceased to be in business, was a member of a controlled 
group of corporations which included the signatory operator, or was a 
trade or business which was under common control with a signatory 
operator, or had a partnership interest (other than as a limited 
partner) or joint venture with a signatory operator in a business within 
the coal industry which employed eligible beneficiaries, or is a 
successor in interest to a person who was a related person.
    We or us refers to the Social Security Administration.
    You as used in this subpart refers to the coal operator (or related 
person) assigned premium responsibility for a specific beneficiary under 
the Coal Act.

[58 FR 52916, Oct. 13, 1993, as amended at 62 FR 38456, July 18, 1997]

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