[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: 20CFR229.51]

[Page 464-465]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 229_SOCIAL SECURITY OVERALL MINIMUM GUARANTEE--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart F_Computation of the Overall Minimum Rate
 
Sec. 229.51  Adjustment of age reduction.

    (a) General. If an age reduced employee or spouse overall minimum 
benefit is not paid for certain months before the employee or spouse 
attains retirement age, or the employee becomes entitled to a DIB O/M, 
the age reduction may be adjusted to drop the months for which no 
payment was made or the overall minimum rate was not reduced for age.
    (b) Employee adjusted age reduction. The following months are 
deducted from the months used to determine the age reduction in the 
Overall Minimum PIA amount, effective the month in which the employee 
attains retirement age or becomes entitled to a DIB O/M:
    (1) Months in which the increase under the overall minimum is 
completely or partially deducted because of the employee's excess 
earnings; and
    (2) Months in which the employee is entitled to a DIB O/M as well as 
a reduced O/M.
    (c) Spouse adjusted age reduction. The following months are deducted 
from the months used to determine the age reduction in the spouse 
overall minimum benefit, effective the month in which the spouse attains 
retirement age:
    (1) Months in which the spouse O/M benefit is completely or 
partially deducted because of the employee's or spouse's excess 
earnings:
    (2) Months after entitlement to a spouse O/M benefit ends for any 
reason;
    (3) Months in which a spouse has in her care the employee's child 
who is

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under 16 years old or disabled before age 22;
    (4) Months in which a DIB O/M benefit is not payable because the 
employee refused rehabilitation service (see Sec. 229.81 of this part).