[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: 20CFR234.10]

[Page 472]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B_Lump-Sum Death Payment
 
Sec. 234.10  General.


    A lump-sum death payment (LSDP) is payable when an employee with ten 
or more years of railroad service and a current connection with the 
railroad industry dies and is not survived by an individual who is 
eligible for a monthly annuity in the month the employee died. The 
amount of the LSDP and the priority for payment depend upon when the 
employee acquired his or her 120th month of railroad service. If the 
employee acquired the 120th month of railroad service after 1974, a 1974 
Act lump-sum death payment is payable to the employee's widow(er). If 
the employee acquired the 120th month of railroad service before 1975, a 
1937 Act lump-sum death payment is payable to the employee's widow(er), 
the funeral home or the payer of the employee's burial expenses. An 
application for an LSDP must be filed within two years after the 
employee's death.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
3220-0031)

[51 FR 3036, Jan. 23, 1986, as amended at 52 FR 11017, Apr. 6, 1987]