[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: 20CFR234.31]

[Page 475]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart C_Annuities Due but Unpaid at Death
 
Sec. 234.31  Regular employee retirement and supplemental annuities.

    A regular employee retirement annuity or a supplemental annuity 
which is unpaid at the death of the employee is payable in the following 
order and amounts:
    (a) A surviving spouse, who was ``living with'' (see Sec. 234.21) 
the employee at the time of the employee's death, receives the full 
amount of the unpaid annuity.
    (b) Each person who paid the employee's burial expenses receives a 
share of the unpaid annuities in the same proportion that he or she paid 
the burial expenses, but only to the extent that he or she is not 
reimbursed by the LSDP. If a payer of the employee's burial expenses 
dies before negotiating his or her check, that payment becomes payable 
to his or her estate.
    (c) Surviving children of the employee receive equal shares.
    (d) Surviving grandchildren of the employee receive equal shares.
    (e) Surviving parents of the employee each receive equal shares.
    (f) Surviving brothers and sisters of the employee receive equal 
shares. Half blood brothers and sisters share equally with full blood 
brothers and sisters.