[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: 20CFR219.44]

[Page 256]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 219_EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR PAYMENT--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C_Evidence of Relationship
 
Sec.  219.44  Evidence of relationship of a person other than a parent or child.

    (a) Claimants other than child or parent. When any person other than 
a child or parent applies for benefits due because of the employee's 
death or because of the death of a beneficiary, the Board may ask the 
claimant for evidence of relationship.
    (b) Evidence required. The type of evidence required is dependent 
upon the amount payable and the claimant's relationship to the deceased 
employee or beneficiary.
    (c) More than one eligible and claimants agree on relationship. If 
there is more than one person eligible for benefits, and all eligible 
persons agree on the relationship of each other eligible person, only 
one of the persons will be asked to furnish proof of relationship. For 
example, if brothers and sisters of a deceased employee file 
applications for the residual lump sum or annuity payments due but 
unpaid at death, only one of them need file proof of relationship if 
their applications indicate that there is no dispute as to who are the 
brothers and sisters of the employee.