[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: 20CFR220.11]

[Page 243]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 220_DETERMINING DISABILITY--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C_Disability Under the Railroad Retirement Act for Work in an 
                 Employee's Regular Railroad Occupation
 
Sec. 220.11  Definitions as used in this subpart.

    Functional capacity test means one of a number of tests which 
provide objective measures of a claimant's maximal work ability and 
includes functional capacity evaluations which provide a systematic 
comprehensive assessment of a claimant's overall strength, mobility, 
endurance and capacity to perform physically demanding tasks, such as 
standing, walking, lifting, crouching, stooping or bending, climbing or 
kneeling.
    Independent Case Evaluation (ICE) means the process for evaluating 
claims not covered by appendix 3 of this part.
    Permanent physical or mental impairment means a physical or mental 
impairment or combination of impairments that can be expected to result 
in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous 
period of not less than 12 months.
    Regular railroad occupation means an employee's railroad occupation 
in which he or she has engaged in service for hire in more calendar 
months than the calendar months in which he or she has been engaged in 
service for hire in any other occupation during the last preceding five 
calendar years, whether or not consecutive; or has engaged in service 
for hire in not less than one-half of all of the months in which he or 
she has been engaged in service for hire during the last preceding 15 
consecutive calendar years. If an employee last worked as an officer or 
employee of a railway labor organization and if continuance in such 
employment is no longer available to him or her, the ``regular 
occupation'' shall be the position to which the employee holds seniority 
rights or the position which he or she left to work for a railway labor 
organization.
    Residual functional capacity has the same meaning as found in Sec. 
220.120.

[63 FR 7541, Feb. 13, 1998]