[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: 20CFR234.44]

[Page 476]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Residual Lump-Sum Payment
 
Sec. 234.44  Payment to surviving relatives.

    (a) How surviving relatives are paid. If the employee either did not 
designate a beneficiary or was not survived by a designated beneficiary, 
the RLS is payable to surviving relatives of the employee in the 
following order of relationship to the employee:
    (1) Widow(er) who was ``living with'' the employee at the time of 
the employee's death (see Sec. 234.21 for a definition of ``living 
with'');
    (2) Child;
    (3) Grandchild;
    (4) Parent;
    (5) Brother or sister, including half blood brother or sister.
    (b) Amount surviving relatives are paid. If more than one relative 
in an equal degree of relationship survives the employee, each one is 
paid an equal share of the RLS. If an entitled relative of the employee 
dies before negotiating the RLS check, that share becomes payable to 
other surviving relatives of the employee in the same degree of 
relationship. If no relatives in that degree of relationship survive, 
relatives in the next degree of relationship are payable.