[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: 20CFR221.1]



[Page 428-429]

 

                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 221_JURISDICTION DETERMINATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  221.1  Introduction.









Sec.

221.1 Introduction.

221.2 Railroad Retirement Board jurisdiction.

221.3 Social Security Administration jurisdiction.

221.4 When a jurisdiction decision may be reversed.



    Authority: Sec. 7(b)(1), Pub. L. 94-547 (45 U.S.C. 231f(b)(1)).



    Source: 47 FR 7656, Feb. 22, 1982, unless otherwise noted.





    This part explains the factors involved in deciding whether the 

Social



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Security Administration or the Railroad Retirement Board will pay 

benefits to a railroad employee, and his or her eligible family members, 

both before and after the employee's death. The agency that has 

jurisdiction over the payment of benefits also has jurisdiction of the 

applicant's medicare coverage (see part 270 of this chapter). The Board 

is responsible for making this decision.