[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR216.24]

[Page 219]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 216_ELIGIBILITY FOR AN ANNUITY--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart C_Railroad and Last Non-Railroad Employment
 
Sec.  216.24  Relinquishment of rights to return to work.

    (a) What return to work rights must be given up. Before an 
individual may receive an annuity based on age, he or she must give up 
any seniority or other rights to return to work for any railroad 
employer.
    (b) When right to return to work is ended. An individual's right to 
return to work for a railroad employer is ended whenever any of the 
following events occur:
    (1) The employer reports to the Board that the individual no longer 
has the right;
    (2) The individual or an authorized agent of that individual gives 
the employer an oral or written notice of the individual's wish to give 
up that right and:
    (i) The individual certifies to the Board that the right has been 
given up;
    (ii) The Board notifies the employer of the individual's 
certification; and
    (iii) The employer either confirms the individual's right has been 
given up or fails to reply within 10 days following the day the Board 
mailed the notice to the employer;
    (3) An event occurs which under the established rules or practices 
of the employer automatically ends that right;
    (4) The employer or the individual or both take an action which 
clearly and positively ends that right;
    (5) The individual never had that right and permanently stops 
working;
    (6) The Board gives up that right for the individual, having been 
authorized to do so by the individual;
    (7) The individual dies; or
    (8) The individual signs a statement that he or she gives up all 
rights to return to work in order to receive a separation allowance or 
severance pay.

(The information collection requirements contained in paragraph (b) were 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
3220-0016)