[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: 20CFR229.57]

[Page 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. 229.57  Reduction in spouse overall minimum benefit for employee 
annuity.

    If an annuitant is entitled to both an employee annuity on his or 
her own earnings record and a spouse annuity on a different earnings 
record, the total overall minimum rates on both earnings records must be 
higher than the total railroad formula rates for the overall minimum to 
apply. The spouse overall minimum benefit amount, after adjustment for 
the family maximum and for age, is reduced by the employee-only overall 
minimum rate on the spouse's own earnings record (the employee benefit 
adjusted for age and social security benefits) plus the amount of any 
social security benefit payable to the spouse on other than the 
empoyee's earnings record.