[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: 20CFR234.44]



[Page 495]

 

                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 234_LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart D_Residual Lump-Sum Payment

 

Sec.  234.44  Payment to surviving relatives.



    (a) How surviving relatives are paid. If the employee either did not 

designate a beneficiary or was not survived by a designated beneficiary, 

the RLS is payable to surviving relatives of the employee in the 

following order of relationship to the employee:

    (1) Widow(er) who was ``living with'' the employee at the time of 

the employee's death (see Sec.  234.21 for a definition of ``living 

with'');

    (2) Child;

    (3) Grandchild;

    (4) Parent;

    (5) Brother or sister, including half blood brother or sister.

    (b) Amount surviving relatives are paid. If more than one relative 

in an equal degree of relationship survives the employee, each one is 

paid an equal share of the RLS. If an entitled relative of the employee 

dies before negotiating the RLS check, that share becomes payable to 

other surviving relatives of the employee in the same degree of 

relationship. If no relatives in that degree of relationship survive, 

relatives in the next degree of relationship are payable.