[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: 20CFR216.24]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 216_ELIGIBILITY FOR AN ANNUITY--Table of Contents

 

           Subpart C_Railroad and Last Non-Railroad Employment

 

Sec.  216.24  Relinquishment of rights to return to work.



    (a) What return to work rights must be given up. Before an 

individual may receive an annuity based on age, he or she must give up 

any seniority or other rights to return to work for any railroad 

employer.

    (b) When right to return to work is ended. An individual's right to 

return to work for a railroad employer is ended whenever any of the 

following events occur:

    (1) The employer reports to the Board that the individual no longer 

has the right;

    (2) The individual or an authorized agent of that individual gives 

the employer an oral or written notice of the individual's wish to give 

up that right and:

    (i) The individual certifies to the Board that the right has been 

given up;

    (ii) The Board notifies the employer of the individual's 

certification; and

    (iii) The employer either confirms the individual's right has been 

given up or fails to reply within 10 days following the day the Board 

mailed the notice to the employer;

    (3) An event occurs which under the established rules or practices 

of the employer automatically ends that right;

    (4) The employer or the individual or both take an action which 

clearly and positively ends that right;

    (5) The individual never had that right and permanently stops 

working;

    (6) The Board gives up that right for the individual, having been 

authorized to do so by the individual;

    (7) The individual dies; or

    (8) The individual signs a statement that he or she gives up all 

rights to return to work in order to receive a separation allowance or 

severance pay.



(The information collection requirements contained in paragraph (b) were 

approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 

3220-0016)