[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: 20CFR222.2]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 222_FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec.  222.2  Definitions.



    As used in this part--

    Annuity means a payment under the Railroad Retirement Act due to an 

entitlement claimant for a calendar month and made to him or her on the 

first day of the following month.

    Apply means to sign a form or statement that the Railroad Retirement 

Board accepts as an application for an annuity or lump-sum payment under 

the rules set out in part 217 of this chapter.

    Child has differing definitions for annuity and lump-sum payment 

purposes. See Sec.  222.31.

    Claimant means a person who files an application for an annuity or 

lump-sum payment or for whom an application is filed.

    Eligible means that a person would meet all the requirements for 

payment of an annuity or lump-sum payment as of a given date but has not 

yet applied therefor.

    Employee means an employee as defined in part 203 of this chapter.

    Final divorce means a divorce that completely dissolves a marriage 

and restores the parties to the status of single persons; it is also 

referred to as an absolute divorce.

    Finally divorced person means a person whose marriage has been 

terminated or dissolved by a final divorce.

    Legal impediment means that there was a defect in the procedures 

followed in a marriage ceremony or that a previous marriage of the 

employee or spouse had not ended at the time of the ceremony.

    Lump-sum payment means any of the following payments under the 

Railroad Retirement Act: lump-sum death payment, residual lump-sum, 

annuities due but unpaid at death, or lump-sum refund payment (see part 

234 of this chapter).

    Marriage means the social and legal relationship of husband and wife 

for family relationship purposes, as well as the act by which the 

married state is effected.



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    Permanent home means the employee's true and fixed home (legal 

domicile); it is the place to which the employee intends to return 

whenever he or she is absent therefrom.

    Relationship means a family connection by blood, marriage, or 

adoption between the employee and another person who is a claimant.

    Spouse means the husband or wife of the employee.

    State law means the law of the State in which the employee has his 

or her permanent home or, in the case of a deceased employee, the law of 

the State in which the employee had his or her permanent home at the 

time of his or her death. If the employee's permanent home is not in one 

of the 50 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 

Guam, or American Samoa, the laws of the District of Columbia are 

applied.