[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 20CFR302.4]

[Page 519]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 302_QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 302.4  Nonqualifying earnings or payments.

    The following types of earnings or payments do not count as 
compensation for the purpose of determining whether an employee has 
satisfied the base year qualifying conditions:
    (a) Compensation earned as an employee representative, as defined in 
part 205 of this chapter, or as an employee of a local lodge or division 
of a railway labor organization;
    (b) Tips;
    (c) Payments under nongovernmental plans for unemployment, maternity 
or sickness insurance;
    (d) Personal injury settlements or judgments, unless a portion 
thereof represents pay for time lost;
    (e) Wages from employment that is subject to the Federal 
Unemployment Tax Act;
    (f) Earnings from self-employment or investments;
    (g) Pay for military service;
    (h) Remuneration for service which is performed by a nonresident 
alien individual for the period he or she is temporarily present in the 
United States as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (F) or (J) of section 
101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and which 
is performed to carry out the purpose specified in subparagraph (F) or 
(J), as the case may be; and
    (i) Any payment that is not subject to contributions under section 8 
of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.

[56 FR 6966, Feb. 21, 1991; 56 FR 10302, Mar. 11, 1991]