[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: 20CFR234.31]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents

 

               Subpart C_Annuities Due but Unpaid at Death

 

Sec.  234.31  Regular employee retirement and supplemental annuities.



    A regular employee retirement annuity or a supplemental annuity 

which is unpaid at the death of the employee is payable in the following 

order and amounts:

    (a) A surviving spouse, who was ``living with'' (see Sec.  234.21) 

the employee at the time of the employee's death, receives the full 

amount of the unpaid annuity.

    (b) Each person who paid the employee's burial expenses receives a 

share of the unpaid annuities in the same proportion that he or she paid 

the burial expenses, but only to the extent that he or she is not 

reimbursed by the LSDP. If a payer of the employee's burial expenses 

dies before negotiating his or her check, that payment becomes payable 

to his or her estate.

    (c) Surviving children of the employee receive equal shares.

    (d) Surviving grandchildren of the employee receive equal shares.

    (e) Surviving parents of the employee each receive equal shares.

    (f) Surviving brothers and sisters of the employee receive equal 

shares. Half blood brothers and sisters share equally with full blood 

brothers and sisters.