[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: 20CFR302.4]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 302_QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  302.4  Nonqualifying earnings or payments.



    The following types of earnings or payments do not count as 

compensation for the purpose of determining whether an employee has 

satisfied the base year qualifying conditions:

    (a) Compensation earned as an employee representative, as defined in 

part 205 of this chapter, or as an employee of a local lodge or division 

of a railway labor organization;

    (b) Tips;

    (c) Payments under nongovernmental plans for unemployment, maternity 

or sickness insurance;

    (d) Personal injury settlements or judgments, unless a portion 

thereof represents pay for time lost;

    (e) Wages from employment that is subject to the Federal 

Unemployment Tax Act;

    (f) Earnings from self-employment or investments;

    (g) Pay for military service;

    (h) Remuneration for service which is performed by a nonresident 

alien individual for the period he or she is temporarily present in the 

United States as a nonimmigrant under subparagraph (F) or (J) of section 

101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and which 

is performed to carry out the purpose specified in subparagraph (F) or 

(J), as the case may be; and

    (i) Any payment that is not subject to contributions under section 8 

of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.



[56 FR 6966, Feb. 21, 1991; 56 FR 10302, Mar. 11, 1991]