[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: 20CFR234.2]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec.  234.2  Definitions.



    As used in this part:

    Applicant means the person who signs an application for an annuity 

or lump-sum for himself, herself or for some other person.

    Apply means to sign a form or statement that the Board accepts as an 

application.

    Burial expenses means expenses in connection with the actual burial 

or other disposition of the remains of the deceased employee.

    Eligible means a person meets all the requirements for payment of an 

annuity or a lump-sum, but has not yet applied.

    Employee means any person who is working or has worked for a 

railroad employer.

    Entitled means a person who meets all the requirements for an 

annuity or a lump-sum, and has applied.

    Equitably entitled person means the person whose funds were used to 

pay the burial expenses of a deceased employee.

    Lump-sum means any non-recurring payment due because of an 

employee's or beneficiary's death.

    Person means an individual, partnership, trust estate, association, 

corporation, government unit, or estate of a deceased individual.

    Reimbursable burial expenses means that part of the burial expenses 

not previously reimbursed by another Federal agency.