[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR219.22]

[Page 231]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 219_EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR PAYMENT--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart B_Evidence of Age and Death
 
Sec. 219.22  When evidence of death is required.

    (a) When evidence of the employee's death is required. Evidence to 
prove the employee's death is always required for payment of any type of 
survivor annuity or lump-sum payment based on the deceased employee's 
record. See parts 216 and 234 for types of survivor payments.
    (b) When evidence to prove death of other persons is required. 
Evidence to prove the death of persons other than the empoyee is 
required when--
    (1) A claimant, who is eligible for survivor benefits, dies after 
the employee;
    (2) A residual lump sum (see part 234 of this chapter) is payable 
and a person whom the employee named to receive all or part of this 
payment dies before the employee, or such person dies after the employee 
but before receiving his or her share of the benefit; or
    (3) There is reasonable doubt of the death of--
    (i) Any person who, if alive, has priority over the applicant;
    (ii) Any spouse whose death is alleged to have ended a previous 
marriage, if a later marriage in question cannot be presumed valid under 
state law; or
    (iii) Any person the termination of whose entitlement would increase 
payments to other entitled persons.